Tika Sumpter Quotes

No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.

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

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character.

The way a character looks reflects what's on the inside. I can make myself look really bad, and I can make myself look kind of gorgeous. It's not about me; it's about the character.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

I have several different masks that I wear.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.

When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna - that's an idea of who I am.

Everybody has many people inside of them. I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want.

For the majority of guys, their character is just an extension of what they are really like. I'm generally a pretty nice guy but I'm a bad guy in WWE. So I always say it's like an extension of my dark side.

I never manufactured my persona.

I'm definitely a lot more reserved without the mask on. And with the mask on, all those inhibitions kinda go out the window. I can act like Keith Richards, I guess!

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