Watkin Tudor Jones Quotes

I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona - which is something I love about acting: you play a character, you leave and you get to be yourself again.

Lil' Kim is my stage name and a character I use when I'm out working my livelihood.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

For me, because of WWE programming, it's easier for me to slip into someone that I'm not or someone that I always wanted to be and just haven't had the guts to. So this super, horrible mean person, I personally don't think it's who I am outside of the ring, but maybe it's someone I have always wanted to be and I just snapped.

I think that the two worlds of fashion and acting world have a lot of common things, because we all build a character.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

Both are two different things. As a VJ, you are yourself. But as an actor, you are playing a character that you want people to fall in love with.

When I sit down to talk to men's magazines, there's a certain character that I play. She's not fully fleshed out - she doesn't have her own name - but she shows up to do men's-magazine interviews.

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

In my early performing days, I played gigs under the pseudonym Whitey McFearsun. I painted my face blue, wore crimson lipstick, and strung on some tight silver latex pants.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.