Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.
It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'
We all become what we pretend to be.
An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God that'd be a boring career.
What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.
I'm a video game buff.
Acting is therapeutic.
What's fun about doing a series is you get to take some time to create the character.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up.
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
I think it's so important when you're playing a character that you can't judge the person you're playing at all. It's a judgment-free zone. You have to just go for it.
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.
You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.
I'm a different guy on stage.
It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.
As an actor, I feel one should use his look to trick people.
I've had a fantastic career playing great parts. In many ways, the colour of my skin has been an asset because I've been asked to play certain roles as a result. I don't apologise for playing them anymore than Robert de Niro is sorry for playing American-Italians.
I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.
I think playing a negative character is more difficult and challenging, since you have a lot to work on, and you have to put a lot of efforts.
I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons.
I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.
It's cool to play a vampire.
I realized that once I graduated from college, there might be a period of time where people might typecast me or be more limiting, and I might not be able to play a crazy character. For me, it was important to do that at least in school.
