Michael Redhill Quotes

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

If you can write it, I can be it.

What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.

Each project, I can almost feel like I'm like a different person.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

Within us there is the capacity of being anyone or anything

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.

I wouldn't be myself if I weren't always trying to be someone else. I only have so much time on this earth and I want to be as many people as possible.

It only seems jarring when you look back on the work I've done. I think if you had to map that out at the beginning and you said, "Right, sit down, this is what you're going to be doing," you'd probably freak out. But I'm someone who really enjoys not being himself. So if you consider that, then it all sort of makes sense. And I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct of just constantly looking for something different, because that's what I feel like I'm supposed to do.

Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. That's probably one reason I became an actor.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.