Kurtwood Smith Quotes

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn't say it's how I am naturally, but it's how I am naturally when I'm on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.

At heart, I was always a performer, not a competitor.

I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.'

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

My public image is none of my business.

Acting came easy to me, I think. There's something about it that's a lot easier for me in the sense that you're playing someone else. In music, you're giving somebody 'you.' Being able to do that and being willing to share that is an entirely different thing.

You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.

I never in my life saw myself as a game show host. I don't want to be a traffic cop.

One thing a comedian does, when you step on the stage, you're selling yourself, and certainly I don't think the whole world can love you. But if you can get the majority on your side, you're really in business.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

I am very conscious of the fact I am in people's living rooms every day, and they feel like they know me.

You need the trash talk, and I'm an entertainer. I don't care if I look positive or not.

I find it very funny as well as touching that people associate me with these characters I play and form a connect with them.

My image is a media-built image. I'm not what my image is.

I had several decorated characters within the WWE that I was really proud of, coats of paint that changed that I could show a different side to the audience, because I've been in front of them since I was 20 years old, and none of them were necessarily the right one.

I think that if you know people who are performers on stage and actresses or whatever it may be, the bottom line is what you do on stage. You just take on a different persona - that's what makes her so successful. Lights come on, and suddenly, it's Britney Spears, and the lights go off, and she's just Britney.

What really ticks me off is how the public figures you automatically become the roles you play. What most people never see is the silly side of me.

I'm always thinking about the viewers.