Quotes About Persona

You gotta do a lot more than rap. Rap is not just rap. If you don't have an image, you're not capturing nobody's attention.

I don't know where these rap guys get off trying to act so hard.

It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

I'm not a rapper; I'm an artist. And I'm more than an artist. I'm a brand.

A lot of rappers lie about who and what they are.

Rappers and MCs have always had an alias. Building your character, it helps you to get things out.

I think hip-hop brought it on itself. When rappers got a chance to talk to the media, they would get in the interview and say, 'It's all real life.' They play these characters, and then they can't stop playing the character when they're not working.

One of the things I pride myself on is that I don't cuss. It's extremely rare, but when I do it kind of adds to the character.

My heroes, growing up, were people like Andy Kaufman and Groucho Marx and people that very rarely drop the persona.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

I think of myself as rarity in the business, and one of the reasons is that I wrestled my entire career as a baby face.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I'd rather be real in the ring then someone who is trying to play a character.

A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

Jungle Kitty is one of the colors of my persona that allows me to be free, allows to be untamed, allows me to have fun and let loose and be ferocious, raw, unapologetic, and carefree.

When I'm in the ring, I'm doing great. As Razor Ramon or the 'Bad Guy,' I don't have a care in the world. But when I come back through the curtain, reality is there waiting.

I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach.

I can't find anything wrong with Ashton Kutcher. I think he's great. It's odd that in America there's a very mixed reaction to him. I think those that have only seen him on 'Punk'd' or 'That 70s Show' get him wrong. There's much more to him than those characters or that persona he plays in those shows.

The normal MGK reaction that everyone expects is for me to be angry and go off, because my history shows that's the type of attitude I'm bringing to the table.

The character in 'Arya' was so close to my real life persona. The director saw me once and felt I was the right guy for the role because my body language was so flamboyant. In real life, too, I am very peppy and full of life.

Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves.