Abigail Breslin Quotes

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.

With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

I decide what character I am. I allow myself to become another person. Because if I'm just Stephanie, I'm not comfortable. When I have to jump and do all these things, I feel so silly, but if you become someone else, it's okay.

I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.

I always try to do something very different with each character because that's why I like to do this, because I can become someone else completely and it's fun.

I need a costume to be convinced that I'm somebody else. Otherwise, it's just me. It's just Amy saying lines. I haven't really become somebody else. And what's the fun in that?

My first experiences with fashion were dressing up. It was always about fantasy for me. Dressing up as characters . . . I always thought that's what clothes were - that they would make you into the person you wanted to be. I'm an actress, so I love to act, and I think that's one of the most important things - the thing that makes you feel like another person.

The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

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.

When the camera comes on, I am not Hayden any more, I am Lizzie!

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.

I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin.

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

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

On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

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

I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.

Playing a bad guy would be fun, I'm not going to lie. I'd definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it's so out of my nature.

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

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again.