Ansel Elgort Quotes

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

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.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

As an actress, if you find inspiration through my work, then my job is complete.

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

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

I'm a Jack of all trades character actor, really.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.