Mojo Rawley Quotes

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

A little girl thought I was mean like my character on 'Zoey,' and I convinced her that 'Logan' is just a fake character and I am really a nice guy.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldn't do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And that's extra hard for rappers. We have a tendency to, quote unquote, keep it real. As an actor, you have to be able to humiliate yourself. Do whatever it takes.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

I don't make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It's magic.

It's nice to be able to play a guy who gets to say all the things that you don't get to say in real life.

I try to shy away from playing cranky people, but if it's just a funny next-door neighbor or business man, I'll say, 'Sure, why not?'

I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.

When I become a character in a movie or drama... I can think about the character only and not the complicated matters of my own life.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite perfected it.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'

I remember playing the Mad Hatter in a school play and feeling very comfortable in the character.