Tove Lo Quotes

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

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.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

For me, because of WWE programming, it's easier for me to slip into someone that I'm not or someone that I always wanted to be and just haven't had the guts to. So this super, horrible mean person, I personally don't think it's who I am outside of the ring, but maybe it's someone I have always wanted to be and I just snapped.

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

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

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

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.'

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

I always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any character. I just put myself as me in this world of Remington Steele and the grand pretender.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.