Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

I'm very quiet off stage.

I'm very reserved when I get off stage.

Just because you see me singing up on a stage doesn't mean I don't have real life behind it.

Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home. Offstage, it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage.

I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.

I started with the Oakland A's back in 1971 and there was press at every game and there were cameras on me when I was that young. So with 20 years being MC Hammer, I'm comfortable with cameras so when the camera goes on, I continue doing what I'm doing.

If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.

I am honestly very intimidated when I meet new people and they expect me to be the onscreen Vir. On stage, I say a lot of things I might never say in real life; I am never the life of the party. People are quite surprised to see that I am more of a quiet artiste off stage.

I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.

When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!

I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.

When I'm not doing the show, and the work has stopped, I walk into a restaurant and I'm shy; yet, when I'm in the show, when people come up with their phones and want to take my picture, I can handle it because it's almost like I'm wearing an armour.

I'm a different guy on stage.

For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.

I hate getting my photograph taken; just because I'm a musician doesn't mean I should have to sell my soul and have pictures of myself on stage with a red face and sweaty armpits plastered over 'Heat!' every week. I'm not a model.

I'm not an 'out there' person if it's not on stage or if I'm not around people I'm most comfortable with.

When I'm in public doing the glamorous-wife-of-rock-star persona, I don't want to disappoint, but when I act, I really like to leave all that behind.

I am not necessarily a private person, but I am Charlotte Flair on camera, and that is playing a character.