Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

It's fun to explore areas that are taboo that you're not allowed to in real life as an actor.

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

It was easy for me to play someone with a massive ego. It's actually really fun to have the freedom to be that person.

I love playing villains. When you're a bad guy, you get to do many real nasty things. It's a lot of fun.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

To be an actress and act crazy is really fun for me, to be able to be acting like you'd never be able to act in your real life and scream and freak out. It's an interesting test for an actor.

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.

I love being an idiot, and acting lets you be an idiot.

I've always wanted to play the villain. You get to be morally corrupt. You don't get to do that in real life.

I always enjoyed being a villain more, probably because you get to do and say a lot of things you wouldn't do in real life.

As an actor, it's better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That's always fun. It's fun to just let go and be somebody else.

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.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

I think that playing characters far away from who I am as a person is a lot more fun and a lot more exciting, and you can play with it a lot more because it's not you and it's so far from you, so that's very liberating as far as that goes.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

There's something really freeing about playing a character that isn't even, like, remotely likeable whatsoever.

I love playing a character that eats on television. It's so fun.

Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.

A lot of actors would tell you that they'd rather play the villain than the hero. When you're the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people - and I think that it's always quite satisfying to do that.

Music is the only place that I can have no taboos. In real life I have a lot of taboos, and I can't talk about everything easily.