Quotes About Persona

You think it's so cool to have movie stars in your movie, but they become people.

If you do a character that resonates enough, people are always going to see you as that character. It will just be up to me to make choices where I can flex other muscles.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.

It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.

On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.

I like being mysterious as an actress.

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

Sometimes it's nice as an actress just to keep something back about yourself so there's a little bit of mystery.

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm probably the realest person you'll ever meet.

Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

Your brand is your name, basically. A lot of people don't know that they need to build their brand; your brand is what keeps you moving.

A lot of people don't know that: that Artist is my name.

My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.

The media named me Zeenie Babs, long long ago. I was even called Babushka.

There are writers for whom names mean nothing; everybody could be called John and Elizabeth, and the writing would be just as good. A name, of course, is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.

When I started making music, I figured the name Rico Nasty would give a background of who I am.

The name Rico Nasty came from Instagram.