Quotes About Persona

The image a lot of people have of me as detached, impassive, or remote is a persona that comes from years of being teased for every feeling I ever expressed.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

I've been called many things. But I suppose 'the devil' is as good a name as any.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

Popularity means people think they know you.

Apperance gave no clue to our identity, and neither did our behavior.

You hide behind the professional persona all day; then you leave the office and hide behind the drink.

All you had of a person was what they showed you.

I'm Fred Mathews

I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

who do I think I would've been if I hadn't been Princess Leia? Am I Princess Leia, or is she me? Split the difference and you'd be closer to the truth.

That is Nick Colt, otherwise known as bad news.

Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

What does it matter who a person is or who they have been? Let them think what they like. We're all so many people, aren't we, nowadays? So confusing it is, I don't know how anyone keeps track. There are the people we are inside, then the people we used to be, then there are the people other people think we are.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

For birth control I rely on my personality.

At home I am a nice guy, but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't go very far.