Quotes About Individuality

I'm a really particular person. I want it my way.

I'm not interested in a persona.

I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves - one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person.

I'm not a persona, and I'm not a character. I'm always the same person.

I think what you think of as the American people embracing - I don't think, on paper, I embody anything of that perceived persona. I think that's what people are latching on to, that I'm different.

I don't have a persona or anything like that that I'm trying to live up to.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting.

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.

Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.

Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.

I'm really embracing that very out, very loud, very free persona that I am now but that I didn't get to be in high school.

When I first started, I had a mullet, and I was trying to play a hillbilly persona. While it was fun, it wasn't me.

The street-wear and the very androgynous tomboyish girl, that's just not this new persona I'm introducing... it's me 24/7.

I never manufactured my persona.

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.

If everyone is my brother, I have no brothers.

Be what you are; it is better that way. --Dolph

WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK Some people cower and wince and shrink, owing to fear of what people may think. There is one answer to worries like these: people may think what the devil they please.

The world has many kings but only one Michelangelo.