Greg Kinnear Quotes

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people... When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.

You have a different personality in front of the world than you do in front of your pals at home. I like to keep them separate.

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.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

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

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

We all have to wear social masks in our daily lives to get by.

The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that.

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

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

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

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

Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world.

There is the real person I am, and there is the stage persona.

I step into a character in my public life. People who don't make that distinction are dooooomed.

I suppose people do sometimes not understand the seeming disparity between my onstage personality and my public personality in the press. But I feel that I am definitely a louder, more outspoken person with those I am close to.

What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.