Missi Pyle 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?

I think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

I never tried to put myself in situations where I had to be anything other than what people saw on TV.

I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

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

The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

I don't know. You know, when I'm not acting, I'm not an actor. I'm just a person. That's how I go through life. I'd rather not - you know, like a lot of actors, you know, they spend their whole 24 hours a day being an actor.