Bobby Darin Quotes

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.

I'm more comfortable doing a character than being myself.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

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

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 act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

That's, to me, the ultimate goal - to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I've convinced other human beings that it's a real person.

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

My family has never understood why I play crazy, angry, depressed people because that is not the way they think of me. They see me as a totally messy, klutzy goofball - kind of weird and hyper.

I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.

I've always been kind of a - you know, I have my moments, where I can be Tommy, and then I flip a switch; when you're on stage, you turn into this other personality.

I started to view theatre like a spiritual experience. You're on stage saying somebody else's lines, but you're saying them with full commitment of being that person.

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

I believe I am a character actor who likes to hide behind my characters.

It's difficult to adopt mannerism of a real-life person and even add the nuances of your acting into it.