Benito Martinez Quotes

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I've been told that I'm good at impersonating people.

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

It's fun to be someone else.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

I love doing impressions.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

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.

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

I don't do impressions.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

I just can't imagine having to do an accent all the time - like, in your whole career.

I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.