Quotes About Persona

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.

Messi is as famous as any footballer has ever been, and yet, when it comes down to it, we don't know much about him. I read that he is a family man and likes to walk his dogs, but beyond that, he's a mystery, really. I like that.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

I can never be anonymous - especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?

I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walker!' my hair stands up on the back of my neck. It's uncomfortable. But when I hear, 'It's Brian!' it's cool. I like Brian.

When you get all this stuff on and you put on the guns and the hair, it has an effect on the actor. It tends to lend a certain something to the way you feel as you're just walking around looking that way.

You spend so much time developing a character when you do a film; so much of your work is done before you get set to shoot because you've been working on the character: the way he walks, the way he talks, what might upset him, what might make him happy.

I have to say, working with Dan Stevens in 'The Guest' and seeing his transformation was incredible. Also Kate Winslet. Off set, she's loud and sweary, but when she walks on set, she has this calmness and is so centred.

A way a woman walks and talks and moves and behaves is completely connected to how she looks.

I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I'm not on the road. There's this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don't know anything about me.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

I love playing the bitter guy.

Vince McMahon said alright, we're going to call you the Blue Blazer.

People loved to hate Bobby Heenan.

I want to play around with my looks. It's very boring to appear the same in all your films. Then people are looking not at the character but at the actor.

What I play on screen doesn't bother me.

The boxing public aren't interested in knowing me. They want to know The Hayemaker, the one who gives it big.

I take my brand very seriously.

I've become a brand.

I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand.

I wouldn't use a song I didn't think was my brand or image.

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

I'm good at maintaining a face. If you've got that bravado, and people expect anything from you, then you'll get away with anything.

When I come up with a character, I know how he lives and breathes.