A Quote by Tamsin Egerton

When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.

Tamsin Egerton

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Acting Behind Cliched Escaping Hiding Safety Say Something

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Tamsin Egerton
English - Actress
Born: November 26, 1988

Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Alan Rickman

I went into acting because I was hiding from myself, and although acting has become more of a habit now, I think I am still hiding.

Nigel Hawthorne

If someone stops me in the street, they might not want to say something to my face - maybe something about 'Emmerdale' or something personal towards me, good or bad. But on Twitter they are hiding behind their keyboard.

Kelvin Fletcher

When you're in prison, there's no hiding. These women are not hiding behind towels and shower curtains. They go to the bathroom with no doors on the stalls. It would actually look weird, if these women were hiding.

Laura Prepon

I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

Robert Crumb

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did something quite cold and clinical: I built a wooden box, filled it with enamel paint and dunked the painting in so you could only see a suggestion of it from a controlled point of view.

Oliver Jeffers

People can hide behind a screen. No one is going to do it at a match, in front of you, like throw a banana at a black player or something. They are very happy hiding behind a screen and being comfortable.

Ivan Toney

People can say some extraordinary things when they're hiding behind a keyboard.

Dave Myers

It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.

Lykke Li

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

Timothy Noah

The true game of mixed martial arts is putting your wrestling in there, putting your striking in there, but also being deceiving - hiding behind your punches if you're wrestling and hiding behind your wrestling if you're punching. It's just a matter of blending it all together.

Tyron Woodley

There's something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, 'He's just hiding behind the wah.' But that isn't the case. It's just that those frequencies really bring out a lot of aggression in my approach.

Kirk Hammett

When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my own problems and my own reality.