Nicki Minaj Quotes

I'm very emotional. That's why I wear shades a lot.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.

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

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

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

Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

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.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.

The core of my personality consists of many selves.

I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

There is no self-portrait of me.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?