Steve Guttenberg Quotes

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

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

You have to be someone.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

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

Acting is what I do with who I am.

I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see.

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

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.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.

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.

All that celebrity stuff isn't me. It's just not acting.

In the role of Miss Munim, I had credibility as an individual.