Identity Distinction Quotes

When I'm [playing] a character, I can look at it and know it's not me and not be concerned with how it looks.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else.

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

When you're younger and traveling and visiting new countries and cities, that stuff is exciting; it's flashy, it's shiny, but I always had this separation between who I was as a person and who I was as a player.

I am happy being a man in a dress. Some people get confused and think I'm a trans woman, but I'm strict about the difference. What I do is performance, it's staged, it's glamour - it's not real life. But for trans people, being born in the wrong body - there's nothing glamorous or easy about that.

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.

I often mention Alice Cooper. I don't wanna sound like Alice Cooper or be confused with him at all, and I certainly don't think we are.

I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.

I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is.

I have to remind myself that I am a comic, I'm not a politician.

I prefer consider Stromae as a collective project. Stromae is not me. Or at least it is not only me.

I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.

Please don't mistake who I am for who the character is.

People seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person.