Rutina Wesley Quotes

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.

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.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

I would definitely like to continue playing Aquaman. Playing a superhero is a lot of fun. Creating these stories is a lot of fun. I do what I love. And what I love is entertaining people.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

Any opportunity I can get to showcase different characters, I absolutely love.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

I like being someone else. 'A Prince' is not about me, but I can pretend for the three minutes of the track. It's great being able to do that, 'cos I enjoy telling stories.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.