Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

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

The more I can be the character, the further I can get away from myself, the better.

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

I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.

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

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.

I read for the sensation of becoming another person; I write for the same sensation.

I think when you're in the middle of a piece of work, there are things that bleed over into your life. You're spending a large portion of your day pretending to be somebody else, to tell somebody else's story.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.

I think you tend to try, during the time you've got off, to forget about the film. It was such a total world. I mean, the sets were claustrophobic, and as soon as you were on there, you were right back into it.

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

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

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.