Tyrese Gibson Quotes

You have to find out how to become the character.

For years there, I sort of lived the character.

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.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

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.

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

Some actors play themselves, don't they?

You can't identify 100% with your character.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.

I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn't recognize their language, their accent, the way they looked, their hair, their face even changed becoming so inside of the character.

I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition. Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that, you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

You got to constantly be in character.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

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

I think that everybody would love to play the bad girl, 'cause for most of us, it's a stretch.

Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.