Performing persona Quotes

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

It's very rare that I play cool people. I'm not sure what that says about me.

I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I've been doing okay, haven't I?

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.

Some comedians you work with, they only turn on when the camera turn on, and they're like sad-faced clowns when the camera's off. And then, they come alive when the camera come on. And you be like, "Oh, damn. You're not a depressed ball of depression, but you are actually funny."

When I go onstage, I kind of turn into a beast sometimes, this alter-ego, you know.

Some of the characters that I played as a kid were rebellious teenagers, and people would see those performances and project a particular image onto me. And 90 percent of the time, I would do everything I could to live up to that sort of image and be that individual.