Summer Altice Quotes

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere.

When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.

I got to express myself in a whole new way as a different person on camera, in a different way as an actress, and I loved it.

Every character I play is me.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

It's fun to be someone else.

I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don't think I'm as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do.

We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature.

I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing 'Measure for Measure.' I immediately felt it was a great way of expressing oneself at a moment when I didn't think I could express myself, really. I suddenly had access to this range of emotions and thoughts and feelings that were there in me. I was surprised by that.

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

I choose roles that are not me.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

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

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

I'm hoping that maybe I'll start getting a reputation for being a guy who can be pretty versatile. That's the challenge and the fun of being an actor. I love getting to play and do different things.