Aneurin Barnard Quotes

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

It's fun to be someone else.

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else. My parents also took me to ballet school, and there I think I was able to start communicating those feelings or emotions - I danced for so many years.

I was that kid who was always practicing crying or falling asleep or being angry or being excited. I was that weirdo in my room making faces.

I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

I was in character all the time when I was little.

All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad's work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.

I feel like acting's a really good excuse because I just get to pretend to do everything and then back out if I don't like it.

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

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.

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.