Deborah Kerr Quotes

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

What I like doing is being a different person. Every character is kind of different. So being able to be that person and then when you leave you're yourself again. So it's kind of weird to be like two different people, and I think that's kind of fun.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

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

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

Often, when I finish a film, I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.'

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.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

For me, because of WWE programming, it's easier for me to slip into someone that I'm not or someone that I always wanted to be and just haven't had the guts to. So this super, horrible mean person, I personally don't think it's who I am outside of the ring, but maybe it's someone I have always wanted to be and I just snapped.

Since I think I am very boring in normal life, I tend to hide behind all these exciting characters, making people believe that I am someone else entirely. That feeling is very powerful.

The Miz came in as a way to say exactly what I was feeling and not have any repercussions for it because it was a character I was playing.

I'm more comfortable doing a character than being myself.

There are definitely things about acting that have helped me growing up and finding myself, but there are also things that make it a bit more difficult. I guess I do allow myself to explore more when I know that, at the end of the day, if I really wanted to, I could just play a different person all day and be fine with that.

I feel like I become somebody else when I do the pictures. I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into somebody different.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

You kind of wonder when you play a role, will people go 'Oh, is that part of you?'

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

I am always experimenting with roles.