Mark Hamill Quotes

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.

I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy.

I need a costume to be convinced that I'm somebody else. Otherwise, it's just me. It's just Amy saying lines. I haven't really become somebody else. And what's the fun in that?

I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them.

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

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

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.

It's easier to play quirky characters and hide behind wardrobe and make-up, especially.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

I'm not really an impersonator.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.