Luke Mably Quotes

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

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

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

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.