Tilda Swinton: Breaking the Actor’s Code

“I’m not an actress.”

Tilda Swinton, Orlando, 1992

I’m not an actress.

For a lot of actors,
There’s a sort of code of honor
Around playing something other than yourself.

I just don’t have that.

I love feeling like I’m performing
In some deep seam of my consciousness,
Or my family’s consciousness,
Or my past.

— Tilda Swinton
GQ, Tilda Swinton Is in a World of Her Own by Zach Baron (2014)