Brian Bosworth Quotes

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.

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

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

I think the self is complicated, that at various times we are all various people, and wrestling actually does a lot with that. You have things like heel turns where a person goes from being a good guy to a bad guy.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

I have this other side of me that people didn't meet in 2NE1.

All the people know Tomba, but not the real Alberto.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.

The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

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

My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera.

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don't know who I really am. They see the party side of me, they see the crazy side of me. But I also have a laid-back side. You know, I'm chill, down to earth. If you want to grab a cup of coffee and just talk about life, I can do that.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to get to know you as quickly as possible, because you're now taking the place of somebody that they love dearly, or somebody that they hate sincerely, and so they need to know who you are.

I never really created a difference between Shaffer Smith, my actual name, and Ne-Yo. They are kind of one in the same. It's been a bit of a gift and a curse. As far as Shaffer Smith is concerned, I've never viewed myself as a celebrity.

Some people see me as someone who makes other people look bad... I often get a feeling most people don't know who I am, or have a clue, and I live with that. I don't try to prove anything by talking.

The strange thing about people considering me upbeat is that I'm really not.

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