Cameron Monaghan Quotes

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

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.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

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

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

What people forget is that I'm an actress. That's the wonderful thing about what I do. I get to play different roles.

Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

I'm an actor. I have to play weird characters, quirky characters, strange characters, sometimes characters I don't understand.

I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.