Quotes About Persona

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

there are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.

You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.

Instead of the fellow everyone had always been so fond of—friendly, social, good company, bright, lively—he had developed into a crafty sly masquerader, artful and elusive, presenting a front so different from his real self that they pretended to believe out of sheer embarrassment, as much to save his face as their own.

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

By the second week of November 1990, a new character had begun to spring forth in Kurt's journal writings, and this figure would soon make its way into almost every image, song, or story. He intentionally misspelled its name, and in doing so he was granting it a life of its own. Oddly, he gave it a female persona, but since it became his great love that Fall - and even made him throw up, just like Tobi - there was a fairness in this gender choice. He called it 'heroine'.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

Staying in character avoided all of that, allowed you to prolong your respective roles for just a bit longer,

When you met people, they were on their best behavior, smiles and best manners. You couldn't tell what lurked beneath the surface

If you try to come off as this big-time star with an attitude, people don't like that.

He was not a warm person, but he seemed to be, which in politics was more important.

When most people use the word "I," they are in fact referring to their protector/controller.

He was all iron outside, but all father within.

I'm whatever I've seen, on a movie screen

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

Then I stare at my face in the mirror for a minute or two, wondering if it feels like mine. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, the dark count is invisible in mirrors and I often feel something similar is true of me too. I can't feel any deep relationship between the face that is mine and the person I am. Like they're two different things. I don't

I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.

I think most people are really two people, the person on the inside that we keep hidden, and the person on the outside that we dress up and fix up and show to the world as a form of protection.

Everybody has mean little places inside himself.

I shall prepare a face to meet the faces that I meet.

Sarah smiled, one of those little childish smiles she was so good at. It very nearly broke the Doctor's heart. 'You know what I think? I think you don't really regenerate at all. I think you just keep taking off masks.

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

People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.

Don't flash an immediate smile when you greet someone, as though anyone who walked into your line of sight would be the beneficiary. Instead, look at the other person's face for a second. Pause. Soak in their persona. Then let a big, warm, responsive smile flood over your face and overflow into your eyes. It will engulf the recipient like a warm wave. The split-second delay convinces people your flooding smile is genuine and only for them.