Megan Fox Quotes

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.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

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

I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

I usually play the role of a glamourous girl or a Miss Goody-two-shoes.

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

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.

I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.

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

I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

It used to frustrate me when I'd get celebrities on my shows and I had to meet them as this ludicrous magician character rather than as myself.

They say the best wrestling gimmicks are a heightened version of yourself and that's me!

I am not that cute. However, because I had played so many cute characters, I am starting to be influenced by them.

I knew I had to be the gay stereotype that was on the front of the papers every day. And I did my job well. I played the game.

No one ever has a chance to get to know the real me because I do play a bad guy, and sometimes it's hard to soak in the comments or the negativity because that's the response you want to elicit. I am a normal person, but that's part of the job. I'm playing a character, and that's my role.

You kind of wonder when you play a role, will people go 'Oh, is that part of you?'

Maybe I was always more than one person, or even two. Maybe being on TV was just my job. People find it hard to get their heads around that. A couple of times I have shone a light on the other sides of my life, but I have learned to be cautious about that. Because people are only comfortable with the Noel Edmonds they see on television.

I never try to create a different personality or anything like that. I'm not like David Bowie or somebody like that, who changes personas each year.

What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

I'm more comfortable doing a character than being myself.