Aldous Huxley Quotes

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

I was a very shy sort of person, and by acting different characters, I could immerse myself and make them do what, perhaps, I wouldn't do.

As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.

I'm not mean.

Depending on the show, I've played a cop, a criminal, or a victim. So there's a range.

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.

In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

You and the character just become the same person in a way. There isn't really a character; it's just you creating this illusion.

You live vicariously through your characters.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

Your job as an actor, I guess, is just to make people relate to the character.

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

You a role model by way of someone will model after your role. They'll model themselves after what they perceive is success. That doesn't mean they take your morality and virtue seriously. They want what you want, and they're willing to do what you do to get it.

If someone in a powerful position acts in a certain way or expresses a certain view, we implicitly assume that those actions and views are associated with power, and that emulating them may be to our advantage.

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

Shrews are made, not born.