Aldous Harding Quotes

I'm a normal guy at heart. But on stage, they don't pay me for normal.

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

I've always been kind of a - you know, I have my moments, where I can be Tommy, and then I flip a switch; when you're on stage, you turn into this other personality.

Once I decided to be a different person on stage, I got the chance to be larger than life and over the top, which I love.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

When I'm on stage I become a different beast.

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

I wouldn't say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

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

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

I feel real confidence in working on the stage.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.

From a backstage perspective, one of the things I always tried to do in wrestling was maintain that I was Adam. Edge was a character.

It is a fine line to be this PG superstar and also a role model and a bad guy and playing off our personality.

When the camera is on, I am an actor; otherwise, I am an ordinary person.

I'm not as extreme in real life as I am in the ring or on television.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

Performing is fine.

When you're an actor, people just take it for granted that you're really confident and can get up in front a stage full of people and just speak to them.