Nathalie Kelley Quotes

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere.

I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

Every character I play is me.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

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

I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

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

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.