Quotes About Persona

It's kinda all about image.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

I'm not who people expect me to be. I'm not Henry Kissinger.

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.

No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

I don't smile. My smiles don't make people relax.

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

I don't like doing [things] as myself...I like to be made into someone else.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you, then; you were safe.

We spend our lives crafting masks to fit the roles we are expected to play, but in doing so, we lose sight of who we truly are.

Il y a en tout homme un spectateur et un acteur, celui qui parle et celui qui répond.

In the fifteen or so years he has known her, A.J. thinks Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.

An "online presence" is "all the true things and all the lies about a person on the Internet.

Despite everything that transpired at Unfair Games on December 4th, 2005, and despite evidence to the contrary, it is not an inevitability that we should be our worst selves behind the mask of an avatar.

I'm not bad, Mr. Valiant. I'm just drawn that way.

I find it so funny that people find me so interesting.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

I'm not that nice, I said. People were always telling me how nice I was. You'd think it would be a compliment, but it was amazing how sometimes it just felt like a kinder way of saying blah. I just keep my horrible side well hidden.