Leslie Howard Quotes

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

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

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

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

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

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

I think, as an actor, you are constantly playing other people. I would like people to get to know me on a more personal level.

I find it easy to be myself as an actor.

It has been my experience that the greatest performers in the genre of sports-entertainment are usually natural extensions of their own, true personality.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.

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.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.

Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play.

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

You know, most people really don't know me.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.

Sometimes it's hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.

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