Steven Wright Quotes

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

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

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

Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how to party. The challenge of my life has been letting more and more of Bob Smith go, becoming the Wolfman on an almost full-time basis, while still taking care of business.

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.

Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

I have always been Fred Durst and I've always been me.

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.

People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

The funny thing is, I look at these magazines that make me so insecure and neurotic, but I'm in them!

Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.

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

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

I'm a leading man trapped in a bad guy's body.

It was pretty clear that I was a funny guy, just as a guy.

When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.

I was trying to prove people wrong who said I wasn't a good guy, and I was trying to be the person that other people thought I was - people who loved our band thought I was a god.

I'm not the kind of person who goes into the dressing room and says: 'I'm the Guv here.' But maybe I give off the aura that I'm the kind of person who can be a big player.

It wasn't much fun being Charlotte Go-Go. I like being Charlotte Caffey better.

When you are born into a body that takes the image of another, you ask yourself a question much like the famous 'chicken and egg' conundrum. Do you take the form of he, or does he take the form of you?