Tavi Gevinson Quotes

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

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.

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

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.

I think that playing characters far away from who I am as a person is a lot more fun and a lot more exciting, and you can play with it a lot more because it's not you and it's so far from you, so that's very liberating as far as that goes.

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

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

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don't think I'm as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do.

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.

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.

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.

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.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

Every character I play is me.