Charity Shea Quotes

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so that audience feels that.

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

One of the things about acting is you can always use your life. You have to recall how you are and how people are and how you relate.

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

Actors incorporate certain emotions from our own lives in order to create characters, and emotions come from experience.

As I write, I try to be the character.

When I'm acting, I just come up with people I've known, and I stick with it.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.