Instantly when I'm acting, I kick into Frank Agnew face.
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
I decided to be this bearded lady in 2011.
When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me.
All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write.
Getting into the character is difficult and letting go of your life and the things that kind of define you, whatever it is in life that's your daily routine because you sort of find yourself in this other life and that's difficult and the other end is difficult.
I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
You sort of have to become what you're wearing.
I'm happiest on set because I'm not myself. I'm someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself... all those doubts.
Most of the time, it's pretending I'm somebody else to get into a different head space. A lot of times, it's just, 'Who do I want to be onstage tonight? Is it going to be Marc Bolan, or is it going to be Grace Jones, or Roy Orbison?'
I want to disappear in a role.
Once I put that wig on, I didn't say an intelligent thing for four months. My voice went up. I walked differently. I'd ask incredibly stupid questions.
Sometimes it's funny for me to just pretend I'm a movie character, and think what would you do if this was a movie? Or, what would you do if you were one of your icons?
I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin.
I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.
