Jeremy Rifkin Quotes

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

In my show I announce, 'People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.'

Gnarls Barkley is an alter ego and something like an out of body experience.

I dance. I don't really do anything else.

I try to relish each of the roles I play in life. If I'm cooking dinner for the kids, I throw on my polka-dotted apron. I might don a smart blazer if I am doing a work presentation. If I play a rock show, there may indeed be glitter and fishnets involved. It's my way of saying, 'Thank you, I am glad to be here.'

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.

R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

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.

If you do a character that resonates enough, people are always going to see you as that character. It will just be up to me to make choices where I can flex other muscles.

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona - which is something I love about acting: you play a character, you leave and you get to be yourself again.

I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

I'm basically a musician.

I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.

I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy.

If you're going to pretend to be somebody you're not - which is the whole point of being a rock star - then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?

Music is in everything I do.

I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people.

A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.