Rose McIver Quotes

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.

What I love most about acting is being able to play different types of personalities without being considered crazy.

My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

Acting is playing pretend, playing a children's game at an adult level, but with children's rules. It's fun to play bad guys. I've never been in a fight in my life, so it's fun to play something that's different.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

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

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.