People say that I'm quite grumpy and negative on stage and that I surely can't be like that off it, but I really am.
Most people think the character I do onstage is the way I am offstage, but I'm just a regular guy who spends time with his family and who turns on the television and watches a lot of sports.
I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck.
For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character.
Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.
As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.
Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body.
I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.
I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.
There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.
Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am.
It's nice to be able to show how we are like in person and give a peek behind the curtain with 'Total Divas.' That's been my biggest feedback is how different than I am behind the scenes than I am onstage.
In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.
I'm generally a fairly shy, withheld person. But when I get onstage, I get a bit mad.
You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.
I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night.
I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.
I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red.
Being in a band is not about reality - it's a bit of a fantasy. I can't go on stage as my ordinary self and just play - I've got to become my 'superhuman self.'
You know how Beyonce has Sasha Fierce? That's how I am. When I go out onstage, I become a different person.
If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.
I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment.
My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.
I'm always a different person when I get up and perform because then I don't have to be nervous. I don't have to be myself.
