Sushant Singh Rajput Quotes

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

It's fun to be someone else.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

I'm not really comfortable with who I am to be honest. I feel more free to step into the shoes of somebody else. There's always an element of me in there but, you know, if you give me a script and some clothes I can do anything. But, as Ryan, I'm a bit of a recluse.

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.

I just loved the feeling of performing, of using my imagination to take me somewhere else.

The more I can be the character, the further I can get away from myself, the better.

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

I'm an actress. You can hide behind your character when you're acting - you're not being yourself.

You kind of wonder when you play a role, will people go 'Oh, is that part of you?'

I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type of character is the escapism.

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

What I like doing is being a different person. Every character is kind of different. So being able to be that person and then when you leave you're yourself again. So it's kind of weird to be like two different people, and I think that's kind of fun.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.