Penelope Wilton Quotes

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

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

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another person.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

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

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

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

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

It's more enjoyable when I'm disguised in some way; stepping into someone else's shoes is part of the reason why I became an actor.

I got into acting for the chance to be many different people and many different characters. I love hiding in a role and doing the research. If there is an opportunity to change my body, I will change my body. I'll slip in and disguise myself in a role. That is a really big treat for me.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

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.

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

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

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.

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.