Reese Witherspoon Quotes

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

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

I always try to make each character my own.

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

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

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 guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

No actor wants to play someone else's performance.

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

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

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.

I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

It is my job to step into different characters.

You kind of wonder when you play a role, will people go 'Oh, is that part of you?'

For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.

When I do a film, it is about how I become a character.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

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

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin.