Willam Belli Quotes

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid to be on a set, pretending to be other people is fun.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

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

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

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

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