Elisabeth Moss Quotes

I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.

I'm not an actor, I'm not good looking. It's not what I do, and I don't want to be one. Maybe if I watched myself I would then try to be one.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

I'm better looking in person.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'

I'm an actor; I'm vain - you want to look good.

I like to do on screen what I'm not in life. In life, I'm much more weak and insecure, and so then you know I like to play characters that are stronger than me.

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.

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.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

It's weird that I've ended up playing so many real live people, because I was never any good at impersonations at school.

The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.

I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness.

Obsessing about my image - that's not my shtick.

I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.

I am not that cute. However, because I had played so many cute characters, I am starting to be influenced by them.

You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.

I've always been, I guess, pretty cool.

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

I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character.

I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.

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

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.