Skeet Ulrich Quotes

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

If you would judge, understand.

Visibility is a tricky thing; is someone visible when you can point her out in a crowd, or when you understand what her life feels like to her?

I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.

I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

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

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

I can explain this to you, but I cannot comprehend it for you.