On-Stage Persona Quotes

I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

I feel like I have two different selves, one for being a part of SHINee and one as a solo artist.

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

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.

I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.

Some comedians you work with, they only turn on when the camera turn on, and they're like sad-faced clowns when the camera's off. And then, they come alive when the camera come on. And you be like, "Oh, damn. You're not a depressed ball of depression, but you are actually funny."

I'm from New York; I've been in show business all my life. I'm a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It's a pain in the butt. I'm a femme fatale!

The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.

The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my movies, obviously they hired 'Larry The Cable Guy' to be 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do my shows, I'm 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do Jay Leno, it's: 'Please welcome 'Larry The Cable Guy.'

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.

For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more entertaining. Everyone knows actors aren't the same people that they play in movies, but people somehow expect musicians to be a certain way all the time!