1.
There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.
Jason Isaacs
2.
I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.
Shahrukh Khan
3.
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
Oscar Isaac
4.
Even when I'm playing someone named 'Fat Amy.' I'm all about confidence and attitude.
Rebel Wilson
5.
I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring
Francesca Annis
6.
I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.
Sean Bean
7.
You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.
Aaron Tveit
8.
From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.
Darby Stanchfield
9.
I've never worn incredible clothes - I'm not used to playing someone so put together and fashionable.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
10.
Playing someone drum 'n' bass for the first time in 'Pass Out' - they're like, 'Oh my God, what is this?' I'm having a lot of fun and a good time showcasing the music.
Tinie Tempah
11.
When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect coach. I am almost always playing someone that has an accent that is not mine.
David Oyelowo
12.
When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.
Michael Caine
13.
Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.
Mandy Patinkin
14.
There's something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second.
Tom Felton
15.
As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.
Claire Danes
16.
It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.
Michael Chiklis
17.
I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.
Brett Davern
18.
When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
19.
Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
Tammy Blanchard
20.
I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.
Holland Taylor
21.
On the basis of being a woman, by playing an alien, I avoid playing someone's girlfriend here on Earth because that's a bit of a canker sore.
Zoe Saldana