Quotes About Persona

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

The first mask I had was an original pale-white kabuki mask.

I have several different masks that I wear.

We all have to wear social masks in our daily lives to get by.

The masks, for us, are more of a way to present ourselves live, you know?

I can't make Based God music all the time. The Based God is something that is better than Lil B and better than Brandon McCartney; he's something that I aspire to be.

I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna - that's an idea of who I am.

It's easy to be the Mayor of Slamtown in the wrestling ring.

As everyone in the world can see, I am not a rocker.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

Well, some people assume when Russell is singing that it is coming from his feelings, but sometimes he's just playing a character.

I can always be ruthless and aggressive in the ring, but I don't think I'll ever have the opportunity to be 'The Funkasaurus' again.

People know me as Prakash Rai in Karnataka. Let it be so. But I'm known as Prakash Raj to the rest of India and abroad. Every actor worth his salt gets a name after coming to films.

I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'

I have a scary side of me.

Nobody knows what goes on behind the scenes with a YouTuber.

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.

I've always been painted as this party animal.

You have a different personality in front of the world than you do in front of your pals at home. I like to keep them separate.

I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got to feel that I was becoming a character, a work of fiction, in a sense.