Alfred Enoch Quotes

Acting is something that we all practice at some time in our lives. We're different people to our mothers, fathers, our friends, people that we hung out together with, people that didn't like us or we didn't like them. We readjust ourselves.

I've always loved movies and animation. When I was little, I was always pretending to be some alter ego superhero. For years it was Ultraman, ninjas, Spiderman and other cool super heroes.

I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.

It's fun to be someone else.

I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.

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

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

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.

What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

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

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

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

A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

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

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

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.

I'm the guy that can play all the different races and get away with it.

I have a very healthy dose of scepticism towards what identity is and what personas are, maybe because of my life journey. Identity is something so malleable.