Evan Rachel Wood Quotes

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

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

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

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

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 love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

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.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was really affected by the idea that my mum could turn herself into someone else for the purpose of telling a story.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

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.

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

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

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

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.