Hayden Panettiere Quotes

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

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

What I like doing is being a different person. Every character is kind of different. So being able to be that person and then when you leave you're yourself again. So it's kind of weird to be like two different people, and I think that's kind of fun.

I feel like I become somebody else when I do the pictures. I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into somebody different.

On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

You have to find out how to become the character.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character.

I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again.

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

I enjoy being characters rather than myself.

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

I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.

It is a part of my personality, but not the full circle. That character that you see is 'The Situation.' It's not Michael Sorrentino. You're seeing 'The Situation,' almost like Clark Kent and Superman.

A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.

We all portray a lot of characters, and once we get into a shot, we have to come out of our skin and be a completely different person.

For modeling, I was always creating characters. I dress like a tomboy. So, when I'd go into a shoot, there'd be all these dresses, and I'd say to myself, 'Okay, this isn't me. It's somebody else. So, who is this person?' Acting is the next level of that.

When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?