Tim DeKay Quotes

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

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

Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.

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

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.

When I do an impression of someone or when I am pretending to be someone else, something freaky happens: I feel the person I am mimicking behind my eyeballs. Their head is sitting perfectly inside mine, helping me project a false self out on to the world. And it's not always a choice.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

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.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

I just love to be able to actually build 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.

I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

It's fun to be someone else.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

I'm used to being someone else 10 months out of the year.

I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.