Blurring Lines Quotes

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

It's very strange to become a character: the lines get blurred, and you start to sort of, I don't know, take it home too much?

I think people are getting more and more comfortable - watching content at home is blurring that line, because people are getting used to watching movies at home.

How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day.

The gap between film and TV is narrowing, and that's great for us all.

You kind of wonder when you play a role, will people go 'Oh, is that part of you?'

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

What I didn't realize about television was that's true of acting, as well. You have that space of time to develop who you are, and you can use more and more of yourself. The lines between that character that I'm playing and myself become more and more blurred and, after awhile, they just disappear, altogether.

I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.'

'The Things They Carried' is labeled right inside the book as a work of fiction, but I did set out when I wrote the book to make it feel real... I use my own name, and I dedicated the book to characters in the book to give it the form of a war memoir.

I discovered that there was no difference between playing a real-life character and a fictional one.

Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around.

Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.

I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line that filmmakers cross more readily and more easily than novelists.

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

Separating your profession from friendship is very difficult.

Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.

It's a tough line, Japanese and western games. We wanted to blur that line.

I love fiction that sounds like fact. As a matter of fact, I also like fact that sounds like fiction.

Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality.

Acting to me is real life - I don't act.