Tupac Shakur Quotes

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

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.

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

I don't pretend to be the character. I am the character.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

As an actress, you get to basically be your character.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

In the role of Miss Munim, I had credibility as an individual.

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

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

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

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

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

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

For a lot of actors, there's a sort of code of honor around playing something other than yourself, which I just don't have. I love feeling like I'm - I won't even say acting out, but performing in some deep seam of my consciousness or my family's consciousness or my past. That's really amusing to me.

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

I'd like to have a different look for every film. As an actor, I think I should put more emphasis on my performance than on my looks.

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

Acting is not just something I love but a part of who I am.

I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant

What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every way from whom you normally are, the person that you are when you wake up in the morning is who you are in your life. But to take that and have the opportunity to be the complete opposite of that, is the excitement of it.