embodying different personas Quotes

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool.

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.

What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every way from whom you normally are, the person that you are when you wake up in the morning is who you are in your life. But to take that and have the opportunity to be the complete opposite of that, is the excitement of it.

It's nice to be able to explore both sides of my personality. I definitely relate more to Debbie, my character on The Grinder. But it's really nice because I get to play a character who's down on her luck and kinda slipping off the edge in It's Always Sunny, while at the same time getting to play this character who's a mom and holding it together on The Grinder.

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.