Gisele Bundchen Quotes

When the camera is on, I am an actor; otherwise, I am an ordinary person.

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

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!

To me, acting doesn't really feel that different, one job to another.

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

What we are as actors, for better and for worse, is visible.

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

I'm actually just an actor.

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

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

Acting is very much an all-or-nothing job.

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.

In Asia, I didn't feel like I was Chloe. I felt like I was acting like someone in Asia. I was acting like Chloe Wang, a pop star, that was like a character for me, if anything.

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.

I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again.

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.