Tamsin Egerton Quotes

Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

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

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

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'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.