Angus Young Quotes

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.

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.

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

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.

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

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I'm a normal guy at heart. But on stage, they don't pay me for normal.

I think I was very shy and introverted when I was younger, and yet, when I got in front of the camera or went out on the town, I was able to go out half-naked and do anything.

I like being boring to a certain extent. I don't have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it's over, I don't have to be that.

I'm fairly introverted, but when I do stuff like a Maxim shoot, there's a side of me I call Gillian.

As for being a little bunny that never says a word, that is truly the opposite of me.

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 tend to be on the quiet side. I think I would have been bigger if I had a big mouth.

I think the stage is the place where I feel most comfortable and most myself.

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

I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home.

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.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

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

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.