Quotes About Persona

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

The risk of being honest can lead to people ostracizing you. It's easier to cling to the persona, the stage, the reputation that people want to see.

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give em? Humor. And if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot 's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

The Real Me may actually have no obvious connection to the Me as it acts in the world and appears to others. It is a secret and beautiful garden only accessible only by means of psychology

the opium-eater cannot present himself in the character of l'Allegro: even then, he speaks and thinks as becomes Il Penseroso.

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.