Acting Quote by David Jason

I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.

— Rose Byrne

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

— Anna Paquin

When you write a character and their dialogue, you can't help imagining how you would be acting if you were them. You kind of…

— Tom Ford

Like most actors, I'm quite shy, so I liked being other people.

— Rebecca Front

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up.…

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting.

— Anna Paquin

I don't like doing what I've already done. But there's a lot of different kinds of characters that I'd like to play. More comedy,…

— Geraldine James

I was creating characters early. People didn't beat me up. I scared them. I hated authority. I could also get people to do things;…

— John Waters

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of…

— Penelope Cruz

Initially, I resisted going into acting. You want to have your own identity, and I thought about doing other things, but that didn't last…

— Brian Gleeson

I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.

— Lucy Deakins

I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie.

— Jennifer Lawrence