Ilana Glazer Quotes

For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself.

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.

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

What is important to me as an actor is that, even if I have to spread my arms, take my shirt off on a mountain top with my heroine in a chiffon sari, it still has to be me and my twist or my funny take on it.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldn't do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And that's extra hard for rappers. We have a tendency to, quote unquote, keep it real. As an actor, you have to be able to humiliate yourself. Do whatever it takes.

I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.

When I did 'Jump Street', I created that character; it was all me. I walked in and was just me. I could get out of bed and walk on set and be dressed.

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

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

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

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

I'm an actor. I love to create.