Aaliyah Quotes

If guys step back and are just honest about what they think looks good on them, it’s really hard to lose. You can spot guys who take on personas that are not theirs.

You know, being in a rock band, you can't overdo the costume changes too much because everyone thinks, oh, that's not a real rock band. Look how many times he changes costumes. That's not rock. Rock's about going on in a T-shirt and staying in it and getting it all dirty. But that's not really my approach.

The person is a mystery. What I'm playing is the person so I really get to tell you and show you and communicate to you who I think the real person is and that real person is me. The most important thing is to play the human being you are creating, which is my job.

People don't know exactly what I do; they just know I'm 'cool.'

The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

Sometimes it's nice as an actress just to keep something back about yourself so there's a little bit of mystery.

Hollywood is a land of style, a world where how you present yourself matters. Many of the people working here are so dramatically good-looking - that is their style. That's not me, and I know that.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

The greatest gift an actor can have is not revealing who he is but through the parts he plays. Unfortunately, we live in a world where everyone wants to know everything all the time and I think it takes away part of the fun of acting that we have to go through that all the time.

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

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?

I don't think you can separate a person's "style" and his persona. If you're writing or improvising honestly, you will inevitably reflect who you are.

Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.

The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.

Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd firmly denied both Warren and Waverly. Watson had prompted him to do a very bad Sherlock Holmes impersonation throughout a good portion of a train ride to Edinburgh, Scotland. And Wayne seemed so wrong she hadn't even tried. Hale was Hale. And not knowing what the W's stood for had become a constant reminder to Kat that, in life, there are some things that can be given but never stolen. Of course, that didn't stop her from trying.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.

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

A truly feminine woman should always retain a little air of mystery.

For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

You know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery.

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.