David Tennant Quotes

I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin it.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'

Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.

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.

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.

I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey.

I didn't like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these different things. My weird childhood fetishes seem to have come to life now as an actor.

It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.

Acting, for me, was therapeutic. It was a way of expressing yourself.

I always do what the character demands, and I love to experiment with my looks.

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

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

Acting is therapeutic.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.