Micky Dolenz Quotes

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

For me, life is like an act within itself. Everything I do is an act. Where I'm going is an act.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

One of my problems is to find the self.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

I come out of real life.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I know who I am.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.