Jefferson Mays Quotes

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

Acting makes you live plenty of lives.

The first thing I do with any script is read it and try to visualize if I can play the character - if I can feel what the character's feeling.

Artists are so blessed as we get to live so many lives while doing different films.

The more you have in your toolbox, if you can visualize or have a moment to provide you a visual, as an actor, that's paramount.

All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

I just try to put myself in the minds of all the characters.

The power with which you can create a character is tremendous and probably more satisfying than actually being the person.

We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.

As Laurel Van Ness it's so much fun, and with that comes a creative outlet. You can be who you wanna be and be that particular character. I'm so thankful that Impact allows me to do that.

I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

I was an actor for a little bit. That's when I started to understand fiction - and that one of the great things about fiction is that you're dependent on the characters as much as they're dependent on you.

Once the director calls for action, we act; we stop when he says 'Cut.' It is sort of like meditation - unknowingly, you are moving out of yourself, becoming someone else. That is why I consider acting a form of meditation.

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.

I like being someone else. 'A Prince' is not about me, but I can pretend for the three minutes of the track. It's great being able to do that, 'cos I enjoy telling stories.

I only like playing people who are completely different from me. I try to mould myself into that character.

One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.

There are aspects of writing that require you to image yourself in various roles and guises, to stand in the shoes of others, to 'act' on an inner stage.

Acting always affects every part of your life because it's such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you're taking on someone else's character and that responsibility. It's exhausting.

With any character, you have to put part of yourself into it because we are the soul that brings that character to life.