Quotes About Persona

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

What that shows on the outside speaks volumes of the inside.

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

Most people, however clever, however controlled, never hid it completely. There were chinks, clues, habits. At some point, the real person showed through the facade.

Well, aren't you Mother fucking Teresa

You don't want to watch people who are really awful. That's the goal whenever you're playing someone who's a little twisted. One of the important aspects of this is we just don't know who he is. Or who she is. And we find out along the way.

The more secrets and twists in a character, the better.

I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.

I didn't necessarily intend it for myself, but it just happens with Instagram and Twitter; people come up to me and call me Emrata; they don't call me Emily. That's my brand, my identity.

There's someone on Twitter who pretends to be me but as long as he doesn't say anything damaging, I don't care. Let him get on with it.

I have a Twitter, but I'm not a tweeter... if that really makes sense.

I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.

What I say on a record and what I say off a record is two different things. And that's always been the case. There's a difference between confidence on a record and arrogance.

Billy Graham that the world saw on television or saw on the big screen was the same Billy Graham that we saw at home. He wasn't two people.

When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

Modelling is very two-dimensional. You really don't have to bare anything.

In my career, which has been fairly two-dimensional, people make decisions based on your persona.

I'm not like a performer type.

I've never looked at myself as this pop candy type.

I'm not that kind of publicity, attention-grabber type of artist.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.

There are lots of people who are red-carpet types, but that's not me.