When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.
It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.
It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.
I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.
When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.
I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.
When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.
I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.