Suzanne Farrell Quotes

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

It's fun to be someone else.

My whole philosophy is about playing dress-up.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

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.

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.

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.'

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

I liked to pretend a lot. I thought I could be anything that I wanted.

That's what I love about movies and TV: You can go anywhere any time and be whoever you want.

The cool thing about being in drag, just like getting to play a role in a play, is that you get to play a fantasy and you get to play someone else that you're not used to.

I like being someone else. 'A Prince' is not about me, but I can pretend for the three minutes of the track. It's great being able to do that, 'cos I enjoy telling stories.

The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.

One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.

I try to relish each of the roles I play in life. If I'm cooking dinner for the kids, I throw on my polka-dotted apron. I might don a smart blazer if I am doing a work presentation. If I play a rock show, there may indeed be glitter and fishnets involved. It's my way of saying, 'Thank you, I am glad to be here.'

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.