Quotes About Persona

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

I think the celebrities today, not all of them , but just the whole industry frustrates me because it is so fake. People pretend to be, a lot of the time, what they're not.

I'm not confident at all. You just pretend you are.

There are certain people who I worked with, Pamela Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, they are figures. And they know this. They don't pretend to be good actors. They were made by the industry into figures.

I don't like how sometimes people pretend to not be a certain way.

Sometimes people pretend to be someone else and act in a different way, everyone carries an invisible mask.

Being is like pretending.

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

Any actor who says that they don't want the attention, and that they're tired of all the interviews and photoshoots, are just pretending.

Acting isn't being who you are on screen. It's pretending that you're someone else.

Style equals pretense.

When I'm on stage, that's a job. It's acting, it's faking, just making fun of yourself, telling bad jokes - I'm pretty good in this - dancing, just to entertain.

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.

The Hoff has taken over David Hasselhoff. David Hasselhoff really doesn't know who he is anymore. Everywhere I go, it's The Hoff.

Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.