Kayvan Novak Quotes

I'm used to being someone else 10 months out of the year.

I'm not really an impersonator.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

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

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

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

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.

The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.

The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.