Quotes About Persona

This was just the way I imagined myself around Nancy Grace--available, yet distant.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

There are a million misconceptions about me but the greatest is probably that people think I'm the king of disco. I love disco but it is only one part of me.

Nobody knew me. They just knew that I was the guy from 'Mission: Impossible.'

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.

I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.

In Arabic, 'Naseem' means a gentle breeze. But inside the guy's a monster.

I'm a real-life 'Hannah Montana.'

When I have to be in public, I can't be in a bad mood.

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.

I 100 percent do not see myself as the new Piers Morgan!

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

he smelled like somebody trying to smell like somebody else.

I am the mask and the mask is me.

I'm not a public speaker. I don't even like making toasts. It hits me in a way I can't really explain. I've literally sat with a therapist to try to figure out what that is, because I'm such a public persona.

I looked her in the eye, trying to see beyond the pose, trying to imagine what she was like when she was alone... but I couldn't see it. That sort of girl is never alone, because without other people they have to be themselves, and they can't stand themselves.

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

People would call him Professor Fang, which sounded so much like a super villain that he wasn't sure he could go through with it.

I'm not trying to be rude," he said, so effortlessly rude that he didn't have to try.