I always want to look like myself – that’s key for me. I don’t want to look like a different person, I don’t want my face frozen.
I wouldn’t say I’ve changed at all. A lot of people will keep saying I’m a different person, especially when I go across those white lines. I think it’s just the hunger and desire and passion I’ve got for the game.
Getting older, getting married, buying a house, becoming a different person… I had to figure out what my new motivations, inspirations, and goals were.
Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn’t do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you’re doing. That’s the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.
There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place… But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
When I was super young, and everybody who has been in fan of mine from the WEC days, I was just tough as nails, fearless and that’s what made me tick. I’m not those things anymore. I’m fearless, but I plan ahead. I’m strategic. I’m smarter, and I’m just a different person than I was.
Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn’t do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you’re doing. That’s the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.
After I play a gig, I’m like a different person: I have superhuman strength.
I’m a totally different person in training.
I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person.
I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you’re playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.
On the pitch, I can be really fearless. It’s all about performing, and I forget about everything else. When I step off, in real life, I can be a different person. I can feel vulnerable sometimes.
I don’t always feel sexy even though I have to look it, and I’ve just learned to go into on-and-off mode. I’m a mom at home, and then I go into work, and it’s nice to have that contrast. I see a different person in the mirror when I’m at work with hair and makeup than when I’m home.
When you wear the costumes in a period drama, you already feel like a different person – the clothes make you stand differently, change your posture, the way you walk. You really have to have stamina – you have two hours in hair and makeup, and then another hour to remove all that.
I have so much hair, so straightening takes a long time. I mean, if I look at photos of myself with straight hair, it’s hilarious. I look like a different person.
I’m always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I’m such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.
We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.
People know me only from the Octagon, from the gym. I’m a different person outside and I am who I want to be.
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you’re a different person on holiday. You’re sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you’ve never met and for 10 days you’re someone else. You’re out of your comfortable zone.
I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person – I felt proud.
I got to express myself in a whole new way as a different person on camera, in a different way as an actress, and I loved it.
