Valeria Golino Quotes

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

I'm dying to fool around with the distance between Selina Kyle and Catwoman. And, you know, the whole double identity thing is endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can always find another riff for it.

This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I published some poems under a pen name in a literary magazine to see what it would feel like. It was fun. It was even a little thrilling.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.

I remember when I was a kid, I would watch 'Superman', and I was super into the feeling of knowing that Clark Kent is Superman and no one knows.

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.

I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.

Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

There's an honesty to Clark, Kal-El - Kal-El's the better way of saying it because he is both Superman and Clark - there's an honesty to him which crosses over on both - I don't like to use the word 'identities,' but I will because I can't think of a better one. So, it is not that tough to make that swap and change.

Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.

I'm a real-life 'Hannah Montana.'

The world doesn't realise I have a regular job!

The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.