Imelda Staunton Quotes

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that's the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof - the same guy.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

Act like the person you conceive yourself to be.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

I mean, I am my own fantasy.

If you can write it, I can be it.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

For a long time, I was just a football player, but I want people to see me for who I am.