Anne Murray Quotes

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.

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

People are always very surprised by how, offstage with my husband, I'm a completely different person... very soft and nurturing.

I think a lot of people assume from my music and stuff I'm constantly talking about deep and meaningful things, but then with my friends I'm just a class clown.

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.

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.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy.

I think I'm a million different faces.

The school suit allows me to be an extrovert. Basically, I'm the opposite of what I am on stage.

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

I'm a Gemini. Know what that means? There are two very different sides to me.

Well I am a Gemini.