Elisabeth Shue Quotes

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

It's easy to play a character, but playing yourself is difficult.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I think that you have to find a piece of yourself in every role you play. If you don't believe what you're doing, you cannot expect anyone else to believe it.

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

I choose roles that are not me.