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

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

Titus belongs to 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,' Titus Andromedon. Tituss Burgess couldn't be more different. I get how people think I'm one and the same, but I just don't live there. I'm nothing like that man, and whatever I would do wouldn't be in stark contrast just because, but because I'm in stark contrast, it would be different.

Most of the people that I still talk to and hang out with, to them, I'm just Ken.

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.

It's weird to be called a celebrity or talk about it. I don't talk about being a celebrity in my business meetings. I don't talk about it with my friends. It's not a part of my life. It's a media perception of who I am.

I'm more interested in talking about what I do. And I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker. But it's true: If you know something about a person outside of the movie that is really repulsive to you, it's hard to shake. So I prefer to do my speaking through the work. I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through these characters. The other stuff is personal and too easy to trivialize out of context.

Who cares about people's personal lives? I mean, honestly. How are you then able to disappear into a role?

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That's part of being a public figure.

Films were just a profession. The moment I step into the house the actor in me disappears.

A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

Often, the people I'm working with on music are separate from the rest of my life.

It is a fine line to be this PG superstar and also a role model and a bad guy and playing off our personality.

I definitely don't wanna be known as the 'Up Down' guy. I love singing that song, I love that song, but yeah, there's definitely more to me than just a party for sure.

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.

You are what your record is.

A lot of my personal life feels very separate from my music.

I love the idea of being on stage and people thinking they know who Michael Ball is, they've got an image and then not knowing and going: who's that? I mean, that's the best compliment ever.

When the camera is on, I am an actor; otherwise, I am an ordinary person.

I think people kind of know me, although I am pretty private when it comes to my private life.

There is a version of me people see. I don't think I play up to it, I think it's more other people put it out there. People see the football side of me, but I'm a different character away from it.

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

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

I've always been aware that probably writing songs - stupid songs or, at least, theatrical songs - is, I dunno, I certainly don't think about that, about my persona on stage. In fact, I work really hard not to address it too much in my head.