Michelle Dockery Quotes

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.

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

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

I really want to act and act in great roles, which have scope of performance.

I am lucky to have got the character of Twinkle to make my debut. I not only learnt so much playing the role, but it also gave me popularity.

The goal, when you're playing a character that's super beloved from a movie, is to honor what the actor before you has done and then really just expand, which is what you get to do in a musical because you have songs, choreography, and everything is happening in real time.

Crying does not equal good acting.

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with. I like the craft of acting. It sounds geeky when I say it, but it's true.

I'm interested in doing some acting in the future, but it's a distant second to stand up.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.

I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing 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 consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on acting. It's like an acting class. And if I go too long without doing a play, I just feel empty. Like approaching a role, I feel like the pool is very shallow, like I'm drawn from it. So I need to come back and do a play, fortunately I've been able to, every couple of years.