Robert Webb Quotes

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

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.

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

Roles make the actor.

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

I'm not really an impersonator.

I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV.

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

Clint Eastwood, to me, is Clint Eastwood. He's great at being Clint Eastwood. But, I don't know how to be that guy. I just don't know how to be one person.

I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy.

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.