I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.
I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.
I am one Dana when I am talking to my daughter, another when I am talking to the IRS, and another still when I do an interview. These characters are just extreme versions of ordinary human self-switching.
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the time, so being an actor lets me live out the fantasy of living out 100,000 different lifetimes in one, without all of the repercussions.
I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.
Some people might say I'm two different people, but I think it's more like seven or eight.
I feel like I have two different selves, one for being a part of SHINee and one as a solo artist.
I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.
I always find another version of myself in each of my films.
I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.
There's a Big Trump and there's a Little Trump.
Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'
What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three worlds they will be entering when they pick up one of my books.
One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
I think that it's nice when someone can go and look more exotic and do the girl-next-door thing as well.
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.
I have multipersonality disorder - in a very good way, of course - when it comes to my fashion choices.
I have this other side of me that people didn't meet in 2NE1.
I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.