Stone Cold Steve Austin Quotes

When I'm on stage I become a different beast.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.

My acting gives me my self-worth.

I'm a normal guy at heart. But on stage, they don't pay me for normal.

I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.

There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

From a backstage perspective, one of the things I always tried to do in wrestling was maintain that I was Adam. Edge was a character.

Johnny Nitro was like Johnny Hollywood, Johnny Danger, Johnny Blaze... it's just an obvious stage, Hollywood name. But John Morrison is more like a real person.

I was a very shy sort of person, and by acting different characters, I could immerse myself and make them do what, perhaps, I wouldn't do.

My parents thought if they put me in drama classes, I might come out of my shell. It worked, and I've acted ever since.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

When I go on stage and perform, I'm an extreme version of myself.

If you are the heel, and if you are doing your job right, you are most hated.

I am me. I've always been a character, and my character's story lives into pro wrestling.

You're out there to perform. You're out there to entertain. Whatever position that you're put in, be it a heel or a babyface, go out there steal the show.