Quotes About Persona

There are still times I feel unhappy and I must smile, and there are times I want to cry and I must laugh... people rarely see the real Marvin Gaye

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

I consider myself to be an entertainer, given that I'm most known as MGK "the rapper" I don't have a problem with the label, I just want the people to know that I am much more than that.

People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.

Our true self remains deeply hidden, incognito, submerged beneath a web of mistaken identities.

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.

I think the whole Flawless thing backfired in my face. I'm just like, 'oh, man! We're out here calling ourselves Flawless, and being the most obnoxious characters, that even I wanted to slap myself sometimes!' Even I would get sick of watching myself on TV!

I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

Those who know me well know that I don't wear my emotions on my sleeve like other people do. That's just the way I was raised.

There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.

I think the beard plays a slight factor to my presence on the mound. It's kind of part of the persona now. Everyone in Chicago embraced it, so I got to keep it. I can't ditch it now.

It feels like we're always juggling many pieces of information at once or trying out many personas at once. It makes life slightly nonlinear.

I always think that if you know somebody's name then there's something slightly fraudulent about that person. Otherwise we wouldn't have heard of him or her.

I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.

I have always played a slightly ineffectual, bumbly, nice guy.

You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.

I'm quite shy, really. The figure you see on TV, that's just a persona. I like getting home, putting my feet up, getting into my slippers and dressing gown.

I always thought that Bray Wyatt, who had the most creative characters that he came up with it - it was a part of him deep down that lived in him. That's the reason he was able to pull it off. It wasn't him playing a character, it was just a sliver of the real him amped up, and that's always the characters that get over.

The line between what I really am, and what I am on reel, is slowly diminishing.

I didn't know how to smile for the paparazzi.

You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

I have learned to smile when I wasn't happy, to sing when I didn't feel like it, and to do things just to please my fans.

Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.