Robert Whittaker Quotes

Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

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

What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

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

I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?

Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.

I spent my life playing heroes because I looked like one.

People didn't seem able to consider that maybe both were true. OK, I was born to white parents, but maybe I had an authentic black identity.

I'm excited to show people I'm not just a girl who wears glitzy outfits and cheers on her man every week.

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

I'm the good guy, I'm a family guy.

People would expect me to be this ditzy, bubblegum-pop girl. I was selling myself short.

Dressing up like a woman does not make me less of a man.

I was a good father. I was a nice guy, pretty good guitar player, and funny as hell.

There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

The first five years of my career, I was Inmate #1, Bad Guy #1 and Mean Guy #1. I had a great career going, until somebody told me that I was typecast. I said, "Well, what's typecast?" And they said, "Well, you're always playing the mean Chicano dude with tattoos." I thought about that and I said, "Wait a minute! I am the mean Chicano dude with tattoos, so somebody is getting it right."

I think I'm not always what I seem.