Believe Quote by Brie Larson

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is…

— Al Pacino

I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the…

— Willem Dafoe

I examine other people's characteristics, so when I'm playing characters, I don't always have to make them me; I can transform into others.

— Marcia Gay Harden

In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the…

— Clarence John Laughlin

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never…

— Laura Dern

I just don't play a character for the heck of it. Rather, I always look for a human element in every character that I…

— Pankaj Tripathi

For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just…

— Johnny Depp

“In our society most of us wear protective masks (psychological ones) of various kinds, and for various reasons. Very often, the end result is…

— Clarence John Laughlin

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.

— Stewart O'Nan

When you take on a character you try and lose yourself into it because you want to be less self-conscious.

— Adrian Lester

If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Since I think I am very boring in normal life, I tend to hide behind all these exciting characters, making people believe that I…

— Sushant Singh Rajput