Quotes About Persona

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Although I now call him 'Sting' to his face, I can still distinguish 'Sting' from 'Gordon Sumner'.

I'm programmed so that only you two can see my old Aura. Everyone else sees an entirely different guy. Boom. Amazing, I know.

Bowie himself said, "Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity."2 After reviewing his troubled early years, British psychologist Oliver James wrote, "What seems to have been the trigger for his shift from distressed and tortured to emotionally healthy, was his adoption of personas in his musical career."3

Merton wrote, "Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: the false self." With his typical insight, Merton identifies the false self as the person that we wish to present to the world, and the person we want the whole world to revolve around: Thus

She observed wisely of her cinema alter ego: "Men like me because I don't wear a brassiere. Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

We are so costumed to disguise ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.

He was talking in a voice which didn't sound at all like James Bond, but which Harriet recognized as his James Bond voice.

I thought (erroneously) that he dressed like Alfred Douglas, or the Comte de Montesquiou: beautiful starchy shirts with French cuffs; magnificent neckties; a black greatcoat that billowed behind him as he walked and made him look like a cross between a student prince and Jack the Ripper.

As always he behaved as if he were an abstraction, not really there, a machine without a soul.

Because of his aristocratic upbringing and friendly countenance, no one yet realized he was a master at reading people.

In Lake's experience, even eccentric and unconventional people carefully curated their persona. Very few truly didn't give a goddamn what others thought.

Ego is nothing more than the beliefs, ideas, and images we have about ourselves—and so it is actually

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice.

Yet he had a certain charm of manner, and I fancied that, if one really knew him well, one could have a deep affection for him.

She's just the type—sexually unattractive, innately respectable. In my book, The Barren Vine—" Colonel Race interrupted tactfully:

Miss Debenham, whose second name is Hermione,

We are not the Bodies that we Wear. We are the ones that Wear the Body.

Like every part of his life was about cultivating an identity. He couldn't just be normal.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.