George MacKay Quotes

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

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.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

I enjoy being characters rather than myself.

You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere.

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

When you play a character, you commit yourself to their beliefs.

Who cares about people's personal lives? I mean, honestly. How are you then able to disappear into a role?