Mahira Khan Quotes

I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.

If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

I step into a character in my public life. People who don't make that distinction are dooooomed.

There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

I think anyone doing an interview is to some extent on show. And therefore, we always want to put on our best face.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

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

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn't one giant press junket. I don't have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

I can sing and dance. I can smile - a lot.

The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character.

I have learned to smile when I wasn't happy, to sing when I didn't feel like it, and to do things just to please my fans.

If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is to fool people.

The me on '8 Out Of 10 Cats' is the side I'd show to my mates.

For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.

Even if you sulk after a failure, you have to put on that exterior that you are fine. You could be going through a series of nonsense in your personal life or failure in your professional life, but you have to put on that exterior.

Playing Mo-yeon was satisfying because I could be irritable. I normally can't be like that in public because of my image.

What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do.