Anne, Princess Royal Quotes

I never tried to put myself in situations where I had to be anything other than what people saw on TV.

I'm like the Ben Affleck of crowd surfing.

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.

What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again.

People expect me to be funnier.

I feel like a lot of black men 'put on' because of what they see and because of what people tell them they have to be.

I feel like I was kind of raised to be mechanical, like, 'Hi, I'm Brooke Hogan. I'm Hulk Hogan's daughter. I like cookies and sunshine.'

I think there are two different types of people in television. There are people who can turn it on like a switch when the cameras go on, and then, when the cameras go off, they kind of lower it down a little bit. And then there are people who are on all the time, no matter if the cameras are there or not.

Action is not really my genre, but it's what people expect out of me. And it works, too.

As an actor, you break stereotypes all the time.

To be a superstar you have to win and you have to have something special. For me, I hope that knocking people out is my something special because I can't sell myself, per se, and become a different person on camera and a different person off camera.

I think because of the eccentricity of my work and how I dress, people expect me to be bouncing off the walls. But that's just not how I am.

I think people know what they're getting with my name, because they've seen my specials on Netflix.

Both are two different things. As a VJ, you are yourself. But as an actor, you are playing a character that you want people to fall in love with.