Persona Adoption Quotes

When you're a child, and you're growing up, and you're mimicking a certain character, or you're trying to live and breathe a certain character on set for eight years that are also your formative years, you oftentimes take a lot of who you're playing into your real life and kind of become that thing.

I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.

When I'm playing somebody, their wardrobe, for me, is completely transformative. You just step into who that person is with that.

I feel like I'm a character already, as in, like, I love dressing up.

I decide what character I am. I allow myself to become another person. Because if I'm just Stephanie, I'm not comfortable. When I have to jump and do all these things, I feel so silly, but if you become someone else, it's okay.

I'm used to playing characters that are so different to me and I love that; it's my safety blanket and I hide behind the character.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

I feel I could be walking down the street, and if somebody talked to me, I could just slot into 'Miss Marple' and know how she would react.

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play. Shaggy is flamboyant; he's cocky. And I can't live that twenty-four hours a day - hell, no.

It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings.

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract for the next night, whereas film and television, it's forever. I suppose it's always about adopting personas, never about being yourself. I think they call it a "shy man's revenge."