Tim DeKay Quotes

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

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.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

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

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 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.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.

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

One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world.

I think finding a way to relate material to yourself can be useful to some people but acting for me is just being really good at make-pretend and lying. I've always been a great liar.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

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

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.

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.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

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.

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

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.