Quotes About Personality

I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.

I don't know why people can't believe that I can be mellow. In real life, I'm goofy around people I know but my music portrays me to be hype when most of the time, I'm actually mellow.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.

I'm not that cool in real life. I'm only cool in a goofy way.

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

I don't fancy myself as a very sarcastic person in real life.

I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.

The Tracy Morgan you see is the Tracy Morgan in real life. He's a great guy but... man, is he a nut.

I might play characters that are loud in the movies, but in real life, I'm not loud in terms of personality.

I'm not very funny at all in real life.

I think I am generally prone to exaggerating characters, taking them to a ridiculous extent. But you do also meet those people in real life who are just really awful.

'Gob' is a character that I enjoy playing immensely because I have so much freedom to take his dim-wittedness to all sorts of low levels. I find him interesting because when you see real people who are completely self-unaware, it boggles your mind.

My friends were the class clowns, but I was the one in class doing Michael Jordan or teachers for no reason. I've always been amazing at impersonating real people, too, rather than celebrities.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

I'm just a real person, not a caricature.

When you see who I am, you're getting a real character, a real person. R-Truth, that's me.

I'm much more at home with Daffy Duck than I am with a real person.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.

You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.

I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's a lot more challenging to do that than something that's extremely fantasy-like.