John Cena Quotes

If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.

It was only in 'Khadgam' that I learnt to project myself and carry off an image of a celebrity, which is very different from what I am in real life.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

Be it 120 frames or 24 frames or film or theatre, you're trying to be a fully formed human being and trying to be honest.

I am not necessarily a private person, but I am Charlotte Flair on camera, and that is playing a character.

We didn't roll credits after 'Monday Night Raw.' You know, it didn't say, 'Stone Cold Steve Austin played by Steve Austin,' so all of a sudden people think that's who and what you are 24/7, you know, 365 days a year.

I basically believe that all pop stars create personas and manipulate them. What we relate to are not their real selves; they are projections, which tend to shift in shape.

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

A little girl thought I was mean like my character on 'Zoey,' and I convinced her that 'Logan' is just a fake character and I am really a nice guy.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

Acting is perception, and as long as I'm honest with myself in my work, someone will appreciate it.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn't forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

I really, really, really love my job, so it's not like I'm trying to quit wrestling to do movies. They just all seemed like cool things to do. I mean, I'd love to be the bad guy in an action movie because then people would get to see another side of me they don't get to see.