Rachel Brosnahan Quotes

When people come up to me and say, 'Oh my God - you're that character,' I feel like replying, 'No, I'm just like you; it's just a job.'

You kind of wonder when you play a role, will people go 'Oh, is that part of you?'

There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

I'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it's a weird, like, 'Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?'

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

I don't really resent being on the red carpet as much as I do having to deal with the paparazzi.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

People know me because I play the monsters, but I'm most recognized from the small roles in which they see my face. None of that stuff really bothers me. Whether I'm recognized in or out of a costume isn't a kind of pressure I put myself through anymore.

I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.