John Wayne Quotes

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

You always carry a character when you come on screen.

I can always be ruthless and aggressive in the ring, but I don't think I'll ever have the opportunity to be 'The Funkasaurus' again.

For the most part I excel as being the bad guy, and that's definitely a strong point for me.

If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. It's part of trying to find what makes a character.

I love playing odd roles.

I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.

I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.

I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

It is fun playing villains, for sure.

I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is.

I was the classic killer. I always played an angry man. I think it was because I used to really be like that - I was hostile. And because I had a good sense of theatrical truth, I used my anger and rebelliousness and just went with it. Anger was just a part of me.

Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.

If you're going to pretend to be somebody you're not - which is the whole point of being a rock star - then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.