A Quote by John Gielgud

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

John Gielgud

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John Gielgud
English - Actor
April 14, 1904 - May 21, 2000

Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you

Johnny Depp

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

Kim Kardashian

Being consistent is way less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.

Merlin Mann

I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.

Patti Smith

I've always made a point of playing parts where weight has nothing to do with it, and not just weight but looks. It's about being funny and being interesting, and I think there are a lot more interesting things to play than being overweight.

Sarah Baker

Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.

Eudora Welty

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

John Mayer

I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down.

Susanna Clarke

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

Christopher Reeve

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn't. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it's about you and what you want to be. You're not being treated like a clothes hanger.

Billie Eilish

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

Helen Mirren

I loved being a man-woman. It's much more interesting than being one or the other.

Noel Fielding

Being interested is more important than being interesting.

Ann Landers

Be more concerned with being interested than being interesting.

Chris French

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

Iris Murdoch

The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all actors approach it that way.

Stephen Lang

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