Quotes About Persona

My mother was a biographer's dream and a nightmare. She was a dream because she was a classic to write about and everybody loves her. She was a nightmare because there are no scandals, quasi-cruelties, no really juicy stuff.

I had, in a way, become 'The Nightmare' in the cage, but also out of the cage. That's why I changed to 'The Dream.' But 'The Nightmare,' is who I am as a fighter and that's the way it's going to stay. I'll be a nightmare inside the cage and a dream outside of it.

My character has got its own individuality after the 'Comedy Nights.' People recognize me as Palak. I'm quite happy that Palak has attained such an identity.

It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

Every one wants to play a lead, be it negative or positive and I'm no exception.

I had no idea it was going to be like this. People come up to me all the time, but it's never, 'Oh, you're Sheryl Lee.' It's, 'Oh my gosh, you're Laura Palmer.'

I never wanted to work with celebrities. I have no interest. I don't really care about their egos and their publicists.

I have no problem in doing comedy, as I am happily consolidating my image of a comic actor.

already a national institution: a cartoon cad

she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass, in their eyes, for an ordinary woman.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

everything that is deep loves the mask

Nothing is completely authentic. Even the guys who kill themselves are partially acting.

I am Jack's smirking revenge.

It's so ob­vi­ous he's try­ing to pass as a nor­mal hap­py per­son.

AÄŸz?mdan ç?kan Tyler'?n sözleri. Halbuki melek gibi adamd?m ben.

The guy I'm thinking of doesn't really look like me-not exactly. It's more that he looks like…like everyone…and no one…all at the same time. It's as if he let go of his true self…so he could play any part…be whomever someone else most desired him to be. I don't see how that could make anyone very happy.

Nothing would take him, he was a barbarian with the manners of a gentleman. Neither

So many masks. Was she the only one who had no secret life, no other self in marrow or mind?

You have to have an inside you, she used to say, and an outside you. Ain't nobody's business who you are really, so it's up to you what you gave them.

I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.

Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.