Neville Quotes

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

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

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

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

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

People forget who they are; they always remain with an identity which is not the real self. It is just a projected self which does not exist, but they identify with this projected self appearance.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

Our persona was not created by accident; it was created in order to camouflage the parts of ourselves we deemed the most undesirable and to overcompensate for what we believe to be our deepest flaws. What persona are you hiding behind?

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

When I've got all the makeup on and all the spit, polish and glue together, I look fine. But I know what I really look like, and I'm still that same little kid under there. I don't think I look that great. I think I did a good job of creating Morgan Fairchild. But I created her.

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

No one is ever who they purport to be.

Clint Eastwood, to me, is Clint Eastwood. He's great at being Clint Eastwood. But, I don't know how to be that guy. I just don't know how to be one person.

If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?