Deadmau5 Quotes

When I was younger, I was nervous and didn't have a huge amount of confidence as an actor. Comedy is something - you know when you're getting it right because you can hear. And you can hear if you're not getting it right! I like to create interesting, weird characters, and they're often best in comedies.

I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.

As an actor, you have to understand how you are seen and then play with that. Otherwise, my looks are not important.

The guys that do have the confidence to hit on me are not necessarily my type, but they think they are because I'm a pop star; I sing songs, do movies. I like to feel sexy and confident on stage.

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.

I don't ever recall being nervous before performing because I've already stepped into the shoes and the clothes of the character.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

Since I don't have an image to be worried about, I am not concerned about it when it comes to selection of my roles.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.

People who've only seen me perform might assume that I'm confident and that being ignored wouldn't bother me - but it does.

If I go on stage and I think I look cool and I think I'm playing well, that's what it's all about, I think.

I can't even begin to entertain another wrestler's perception of me if they don't understand what my fans look for in me. I'm different; I'm different.

I don't really think about the fact that a lot of people are watching 'DSDS' or about the way I should phrase my sentences.

I sing all the time, and my co-actors from theatre arena feel that my choice of songs and timing is bad - not that I pay heed, though.

So initially getting up on stage I was really nervous, I was like, 'wow, I'm going to be standing there and all these people are going to be looking at me?' But funnily enough it wasn't too traumatic. It felt quite natural because I felt I looked good and I knew how to do the poses.

I'm not really concerned about being liked on stage - I'm a bit more concerned about it off stage.

I am a stress buster. Because I knew what people react or think after watching me on screen and I love it.

I've established this kind of wild persona and these redneck party songs and a live show that's kind of rowdy, but I don't want people to think that's what I'm all about.

I am proud of the fact that people consider me a style icon.

I think the way you present yourself to the world, whatever kind of task you're tackling, is really important.

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

From an early age, my father stressed the power of the image, and he encouraged me to carefully control my own. He advised me, for example, never to be photographed from below, an often unflattering angle for women.