Alex Breckenridge Quotes

People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.

My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.

From the age of 8, I learned that nothing in the entertainment industry is real. It's all fake. Your face, your clothes, what you say - it's all a fake.

I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

We've taken some performing arts schools on the set of 'Breaking Bad.'

I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!

Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.

When you're even on a regular movie set, you still have to suspend your disbelief. You're working there with only 3 walls of a room, and you're in costume, and you have a camera 6 inches from you and have a crew of 75 watching you. So even there, you have to crank up your imagination.

Even though I was playing myself on 'NCIS,' it was so cool to see how everything works behind a camera.

Some people just want to make up the funny things and play pretend.

Doing a series of 'Facejacker' takes about nine months. It's pretty intense.

Role is something people play, model is something people make, both of those things are fake.

Just by the nature of what we do it kind of gets you out of the regularities of life. Playing pretend for a living is a good way to have a release and playing make believe is a good way of getting away from it and doing things like this. So I think work gets me away from life.

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

I'm only 13, so I can't say "life experiences." So, basically, I had to... act! I had to make up character that is very old. I guess that's why they call it acting - you do draw from some stuff in your life, I guess, but it's not real life. You have to fake it.

I'm having a ball on 'Glee.' It's a joy to be working there - the whole cast is so talented.

People go into that arena, and they know the fix is in. They know what pro wrestling or sports entertainment is. That being said, they want it executed to the highest level so that they can suspend their disbelief and buy in, and so, in a world of make believe, you make people believe in you. It's as real as it can be.

Hopefully, everyone has the same feeling I do when they perform. I get such a thrill from getting to play make believe. My favorite place to be is trying to be somebody else.

One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.