Quotes About Persona

I'd love to play somebody with a split personality.

Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone's opinion of me by them knowing me as a person instead of an artist.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

I'm so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.

Identity" had been forever changed by the Internet; formerly it had meant "who you really are" but now it meant "any one of a number of persistent faces that you can present to the digital universe.

She puts on her poker face; I don't have any extra faces to put on, just the normal Craig face.

Well, he said, opening the door to his car, all you can do is put on an appearance of confidence sometimes. And after a while, others will start to believe it. [Eric Weber] grabbed the door handle to pull it closed. And then you die.

Wearing a leather vest and an Indiana Jones hat, Steve P. was equal parts Hell's Angel and Native American shaman. Rasputin was a strip club bouncer with mutton-chop sideburns who looked like a steroid-jacked Wolverine.

Appear as you may wish to be

He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. I don't fit that mould.

I would tell people my dad was all the characters he's played in movies, because once you say he's a lawyer or something, they move on.

I am a movie star.

It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

I think being a rock star is a little bit different than being an athlete or even a movie star.