Sigourney Weaver Quotes

Once you put a mask on, if you allow it to, it can really transform you, and that's what a costume does.

I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin.

I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.

I just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me.

I love having a costume for The Vixen as getting into the look allows me to be a bit more snarky and snippy.

Even if there was an opportunity to school yourself in different characters - characters that have distinct personalities which may be totally different from yours, you have got to completely divorce your own personality to be able to go over to the other personality.

I need a costume to be convinced that I'm somebody else. Otherwise, it's just me. It's just Amy saying lines. I haven't really become somebody else. And what's the fun in that?

What I like doing is being a different person. Every character is kind of different. So being able to be that person and then when you leave you're yourself again. So it's kind of weird to be like two different people, and I think that's kind of fun.

The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn't me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn't do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.

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.

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

I always wanted to play characters, and that was definitely one - a Russian spy.

'Gob' is a character that I enjoy playing immensely because I have so much freedom to take his dim-wittedness to all sorts of low levels. I find him interesting because when you see real people who are completely self-unaware, it boggles your mind.

I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.

When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me.

Putting a wig on and a costume and doing a wacky character is always fun.

Once I have a wig on, I become a different person. You can't get Tierra back until the wig comes off.

Sexa as a character was fun to play. My mother couldn't even recognise me in the get-up of an older guy. In fact, it surprised me also. It's easily one of the most special characters I have ever played.

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

I love dressing up and putting on the makeup and the hair and the clothes and just being a different person for a day. Maybe it's just the idea that you can kind of hide behind it all in a way.

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.