Alice Cooper Quotes

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

I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.

I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life.

I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.

I really enjoy playing a sex symbol, but it's not something I feel in real life. I'm much more of a natural girl at home.

We're not show-business people. We have a life.

My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.

If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

I'm not as extreme in real life as I am in the ring or on television.

Beyonce in real life is actually quite quiet and very sweet.

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night.

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 have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

Personally, in real life, I'm a little more down-and-dirty than I am glamorous.

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

I have a fairly normal domestic life.

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

My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.

I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

I have a regular, normal private life.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.