Summer Rae Quotes

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.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

I am me. I've always been a character, and my character's story lives into pro wrestling.

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.

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.

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

As WWE Superstars, we want to have confidence and stand strong in the ring.

I'm firmly entrenched in the Seth Rollins character. It is so close to who I am as a person, we're almost overtly intertwined.

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

The cool thing about being in drag, just like getting to play a role in a play, is that you get to play a fantasy and you get to play someone else that you're not used to.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

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

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

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

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.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

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

'Heel Turn 2' is about a person who's in a match, and he's playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If you're standing in the middle of a ring, and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

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

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

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.