Quotes About Authenticity

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.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don't feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain part or persona. I'm not going to cut something out of my life because it's not 'my image.' I want to be open enough that if I love something, I can do it, and it will add to myself as an entertainer.

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

The Miz is someone who people are usually like, 'I can't believe how well he's doing. I can't believe this. I can't believe that.' But to me, he's someone who really always defined what it takes to becomes a successful public persona and in-ring entertainer, and to me, that's being authentic.

I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally.

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

So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.

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.

There's still people who think me being married to a sista is an act. What, you think I'd make that up for a persona?

There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.

To me, what the 'Billy on the Street' persona is, is me as a 12-year-old.

I think there's a responsibility to any character that you play that was a living persona.

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

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

The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not having an adult perspective on the world.

If a comic is himself, there'll be things he can't do - because he has to adhere to that persona.

I think it would be really brutal to put on a persona and get famous for that persona. Like, 'I'm number one, I'm the best!' because that sounds like a lot of pressure.

I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn't say it's how I am naturally, but it's how I am naturally when I'm on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.

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.

To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?