Identity Contrast Quotes

I've had the opportunity to have different style teams with similar identities but opposite identities in some ways.

On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

I like to do on screen what I'm not in life. In life, I'm much more weak and insecure, and so then you know I like to play characters that are stronger than me.

You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see Marvin Gaye and B.B. King and so here I am on television as an actor playing the part of this really sweet wholesome all American boy. The reality was I had a much different kind of teenage life.

I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me.

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

I don't always feel sexy even though I have to look it, and I've just learned to go into on-and-off mode. I'm a mom at home, and then I go into work, and it's nice to have that contrast. I see a different person in the mirror when I'm at work with hair and makeup than when I'm home.

I am definitely a lot more girly that the characters that I play.