Acting Self Quotes

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

I kind of don't believe in actors directing themselves. Obviously some people have done it well, but I don't see how I could. It's funny that you ask, because I've just been thinking that maybe I'd rather direct The Bell Jar than act in it. It's a huge leap to go from a short to a feature, so I'm tentative - I'm like, Well, that's just so triple-type-A personality of you.

If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.

Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you're only acting facets of yourself. I think there's a lot of truth in that.

I think every character I play definitely has parts of me. I can't ever play someone that's completely different to me.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me.

To me, when - just like when you watch a movie or you watch a TV show, to me, you know, Nicole Kidman or Leonardo DiCaprio, you know that they are actors, but also, great actors find that extension of themselves. So, when I walk through that curtain, I find the extension of myself of being the Ravishing Russian in there.

I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.

I don't like watching myself. That's kind of weird but you know it's not me really, it's this character, which I think might make it a little easier.