Allegra Versace Quotes

My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

What's wonderful about acting is that you get to play different roles. For instance, in 'Amelie,' I played a young mother. Some of the photoshoots, you're playing a role. I like to be able to look at a photo and say, 'Wow - that isn't even me.' I enjoy being able to project.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications.

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.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.

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.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.