Quotes About Persona

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.

The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.

You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.

We are whatever we pretend to be.

Somos los que simulamos ser".»

The person I am on the court is not who I am off the court.

But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.

When people come up to me and say, 'Oh my God - you're that character,' I feel like replying, 'No, I'm just like you; it's just a job.'

There was a time when people were like, 'Oh my God, Sheamus' character is boring.' Well, when you're just in wrestling matches all the time, and you're not doing character stuff, then it can be a bit monotonous.

There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.

I think who I am as a person on and off the stage is always kind of the same thing, but I don't take a lot of things very seriously.

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

I'm always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

Often our onscreen personas are different from who we are. Actors like Kamal Haasan, who is such a genius, has never played a role close to what he is in real life.

I look like a kid onscreen in most movies.

When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

There is no reason why a guitar player makes the guitar-playing faces. It doesn't help you play guitar. You've not improved your skills. It's because you're up onstage, and the natural inclination is to put on a show. The rock guy faces are just as much of a front or a show as us wearing crazy makeup. It's just a different scale.

As long as I don't go onstage completely normal and then jump into character onstage, I assume that most fans would be able to accept me as the creator. I can comment on the work the same way a director would on his movie.

People just get to see me onstage, and they don't get whole of me.