“Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are. I think that's why some artists have stage names, you know? I don't have a stage name, it's pretty much just me.” ThinkingKnowsArtistActorsNamesActingPiecesStageWho You AreTheatre Author:Clinton D. Powell
“Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn’t necessary for you, the actor, to like yourself— self-love isn’t easy to come by for most of us— but you must learn to trust who you are. There is no one else like you.” ShouldTryingSelfActorsEasyForeverLike YouPrideSelf LoveWho You AreSingularityLike Yourself Book:Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part Source: Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
“When you're starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are."” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLooksActorsOur LivesJudgingDressesYeahWho You AreStartingHolesGuiltyPigeonsStarting Out Author:Tom Hiddleston
“The growing pains of being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand.” PeopleFeelsTryingLittlesSeemsPainActorsGrowingLike YouCapacityWho You AreMisunderstandingFrustratingGrowing Pains Author:Matt Dillon
“I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someones past, whether youre portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.” ThinkingPersonsPastActorsEmotionCreatingWho You AreSecurePortraying Author:Alex Pettyfer
“As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.” IfsKnowsMindSometimesActorsPicksSittingMachinesCamerasWho You AreStaringRaysVacant Author:Albert Brooks