Paris Jackson Quotes

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

Acting is what I do with who I am.

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 was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

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

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.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

I got to express myself in a whole new way as a different person on camera, in a different way as an actress, and I loved it.

I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

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.

My first experiences with fashion were dressing up. It was always about fantasy for me. Dressing up as characters . . . I always thought that's what clothes were - that they would make you into the person you wanted to be. I'm an actress, so I love to act, and I think that's one of the most important things - the thing that makes you feel like another person.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

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

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.