Sacha Baron Cohen Quotes

To give a good interview, I often found it's a bit like acting, except it's yourself, so you have to be yourself.

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.

We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

I have never been interested in presenting myself.

I'm not a big fan of just cultivating an image.

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 never tried to put myself in situations where I had to be anything other than what people saw on TV.

Mary doesn't want to be treated as Mary J. Blige: she just wants to be Mary.

I don't like giving interviews unless I have something to talk about. Why bore people and why bore media?

People around me tell me that I need a bigger persona and to act a little more A-listy because 'that's where you are but you don't act that way, so people undervalue you.' But that's not me.

I'm not those kind of persons that's afraid to be on radio or TV, you know? I'm always the same.

I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

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.

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

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.

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.

I didn't have any media training - I didn't have anybody but myself.

When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.