Alicia Keys Quotes

What's fun about being an actress is you change all the time.

I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the time, so being an actor lets me live out the fantasy of living out 100,000 different lifetimes in one, without all of the repercussions.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

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 love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

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

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

Acting meant so much to me.

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

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

I'm an actor who believes in looking different in every film of mine.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

I'd like to have a different look for every film. As an actor, I think I should put more emphasis on my performance than on my looks.

You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.

I like actors who like to change and transform to other things.

When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing - because I'm not, and we as people aren't.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition. Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that, you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

What I like to do as an actor is transform. It's way more fun to play characters who are completely different than me. I like playing characters who appear one way on the outside but are actually very different from that.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week.

After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.