Quotes About Persona

The Trump brand is complicated because it conflates a personal brand with a corporate brand. That means that the Trump persona affects the corporate reputation in a more direct way than, say, Richard Branson's actions affect Virgin.

The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.

Trump is an outsider; maybe you don't know. So he is sitting in a room: he is talking business, he is talking politics - in a private room, it's a different persona. When he's out on the stage, he is talking about the kinds of things he's talking about himself; he's projecting an image that's for that purpose.

You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

There is a sense in which we have - like, I go in to teach a class; I may be somewhat different than I would be talking to you, although it's related because it's public. I'm very different with my roommate or my lover or my cats. But I don't know if that means you're acting, really, if you're being truthful.

If I were to do some outlandish role, I always made sure I'd be on Johnny Carson to show that I wasn't that person that I played. I'd be myself. And so people got to know me, I think, and I think they know that I'm honest and truthful and real.

I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.

People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin.

You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

Is your inner vampire different from your...outer vampire?" "Definitely. He wants me to wear midriff-baring shirts and a fedora." "So your inner vampire is Magnus?

I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

People will know you for whatever they want to know you for.

When you sing, you put on a persona. I hide behind that person on stage. You can feel like death, but you have to put it on. The audience wants to see someone smiley.

I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.

That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.