Robert Loggia Quotes

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

You have to find out how to become the character.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

It only seems jarring when you look back on the work I've done. I think if you had to map that out at the beginning and you said, "Right, sit down, this is what you're going to be doing," you'd probably freak out. But I'm someone who really enjoys not being himself. So if you consider that, then it all sort of makes sense. And I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct of just constantly looking for something different, because that's what I feel like I'm supposed to do.

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

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

I feel, as an actor, you should be in a position to mould yourself into different characters and should have the ability to change.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

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

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

I love roles where I have to transform myself.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.