Quotes About Persona

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

My fans want me with my hair.

You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.

You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.

The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.

It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

Power may have ten thousand faces, but the look in the eyes of every one of them is the same.

how much a person's identity depends on what role he is playing.

In truth, every one of us leads a double life. We act one way when the door is open, another when it's closed. We have certain impressions we try to make on others, pretenses we strive to keep up.

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.

He could no longer be that Ed Larsen, but, through a lack of imagination or just sheer exhaustion, he couldn't come up with a new one, and faked his way through the days like a bad actor...

He felt that he was donning his other-life attire, he was making some kind of obvious invitation, which Owen would scorn.

Warmed by their adoration, I feigned disinterest; it was what they expected, of course, and in keping with my public persona. Really, I adore the humans, for all their weaknesses. They have an immediacy, a vivacity lacking in eloim-kind; their brutish enthusiasms are endearing.

He has an important part of play, and I can't help feeling he is somewhat of a weak link. He is no Daniel Cranton, who's the Shining One's vizier, but I'm afraid he's going to have to assume some of that persona!

She regarded herself as a true professional; 50 percent carbon-steel image, honed to glittering perfection, 45 per cent killer class business woman, 5 per cent dangerous psychotic.

I had an inkling there was a razor-sharp intellect, a shrewd individual within the fluff of Livvy's persona. There was another side to Sacramante, something which I'd caught an echo of as a girl, something that intrigued and seduced the unwary. Liviana was an intiate of its mysteries, but I knew I'd never learn its secrets from her.

This effort to appear dumb—or to put a positive spin on it, to "be a man of the people"—takes a lot of work that in a better world would be unnecessary. You have to really want to be a politician to undertake it.

Love exposes you, makes you vulnerable and kills the personas you built on top of your true self.

I have many names; some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re. You can call me Mr. Mystery.

Need, Public Persona, and Tragic Flaw are the bedrock of a fictional character's dramatic life, and the foundation of the actor's own life.