Su-chin Pak Quotes

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

When I go on stage, I'm a different man. I become Chubby Checker, And when I'm not Chubby Checker, I'm preparing to be him.

I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again.

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 would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn't say it's how I am naturally, but it's how I am naturally when I'm on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.

I'm a different guy on stage.

Being in a band is not about reality - it's a bit of a fantasy. I can't go on stage as my ordinary self and just play - I've got to become my 'superhuman self.'

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

I'm always a different person when I get up and perform because then I don't have to be nervous. I don't have to be myself.

Once I decided to be a different person on stage, I got the chance to be larger than life and over the top, which I love.

There's two Michaels: there's, like, my Michael. And the Michael that everyone else sees. Michael the entertainer.

I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona.

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

Now what's important is that they have an attitude. Everybody has a look, but not everybody has cultivated what their stage persona is. And so when you're dealing with actors, it just makes it more difficult, because you have to help them come up with one. You know, Johnny Depp has no Johnny Depp character when he's onstage. You haven't seen An Evening With Johnny Depp at Carnegie Hall.

I separate the performer from the private citizen because it works for me. That gives the surprise element to my show. It doesn't change my playing. But if in a business suit they would think I was crazy. It's like putting Marlene Dietrich in a housedress.

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world.

In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.

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

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

I'm not really an actress type. I'm an entertainer.