Stephen Rea Quotes

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

It's easy to play a character, but playing yourself is difficult.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

I don't know. You know, when I'm not acting, I'm not an actor. I'm just a person. That's how I go through life. I'd rather not - you know, like a lot of actors, you know, they spend their whole 24 hours a day being an actor.

I'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it's a weird, like, 'Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?'

I'm an actor, so I think without a character to play, a story to tell, a song to sing... there's some suspicion that there's no 'there' there. Like, if I were to just strip down and present myself, I think I'd sort of just... disappear.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

I'm not what I make.