Inbar Lavi Quotes

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.

It's all performing; that's what we do in life. We talk, we look, and we hear, and we listen. Your life is a performance.

I know this sounds kind of crazy, but I think we're all actors.

There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.

It's very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it's very nice.

We all have to wear social masks in our daily lives to get by.

Acting is something that we all practice at some time in our lives. We're different people to our mothers, fathers, our friends, people that we hung out together with, people that didn't like us or we didn't like them. We readjust ourselves.

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.

The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society's obsession with identity, because I'm not sure that I really believe identity exists.

Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.

When I went to prison, for three years I didn't say a word to another human being until, going into the fourth year, when I realized, 'You know what, I have to find a way to live.'

I'm used to playing characters that are so different to me and I love that; it's my safety blanket and I hide behind the character.

In order to survive in a very small tribe, you needed to know how to do lots of things for yourself: how to make your tools, how to get food, and how to make your clothes - things most of us today don't need to know. The only thing I need to survive is to know history.

We generally pretend to be something to survive in a society. So the characters I play, I want them to be wholesome characters. They are not necessarily the most wise people, but they do have a heart and soul.

I discovered that acting gave me this spark, this thing. Honestly, it was a way to survive.

By the time I was in high school, I was big enough to beat the hell out of everybody who said anything to me. And I learned how to blend in. All of that made me a very confident man. A very aggressive man. I developed it to survive.

I have been in the most dangerous of places just in order to survive. An intelligent man would stay in a safe place to survive.

Overall, my life has been one of survival, and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.

I've played quite a lot of real people, and it carries a special responsibility.

When I do an impression of someone or when I am pretending to be someone else, something freaky happens: I feel the person I am mimicking behind my eyeballs. Their head is sitting perfectly inside mine, helping me project a false self out on to the world. And it's not always a choice.