Quotes About Persona

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn't behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.

It's the most marvelous and terrible thing in the world. Everyone, but everyone, is pretending to be someone else.

Ik speel de rol die ik ben.

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

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

A las personas hay que aceptarlas con sus máscaras; es la única forma de quitárselas.

I think, for the first time, people are starting to say, 'That's Sterling K. Brown,' which is cool, which is uncharted territory for your boy. It's nice to be called by your name when you're not in character.

Some days I'm Uncle Situation, other days I'm Dr. Situation, I'm Chef Situation.

I am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situations.

Spies go undercover. They take on different personas.

The reason why I'm just 'Cage' in Lucha Underground instead of 'Brian Cage' is because DJ, the writer, Chris DeJoseph, we wanted to keep my name the same.

I think that the reason I became an actor, probably, underneath it, was that I spent my life acting normal.

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.

There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

Where Brock Lesnar would be without Paul Heyman? He would certainly be on top. He would certainly be the number one box office attraction. He would just be doing it without someone who truly understands his persona like I do.

People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.

People around me tell me that I need a bigger persona and to act a little more A-listy because 'that's where you are but you don't act that way, so people undervalue you.' But that's not me.

A douchebag has an image to maintain. He is not real. He is the kind of guy who will change his last name into something cooler and more impressive.

How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

I am more spontaneous than my character.

You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

People have to be sensitive to - I hate using the word 'celebrities' - people in the spotlight. Because there's so much more than what you see on the cover of a magazine.