Quotes About Persona

I'm S. Theodora Markson," she said. "I'm Lemony Snicket," I said, and handed her an envelope I had in my Pocket. Inside was something we called a letter of introduction, just a few paragraphs describing me as somebody who was an excellent reader, a good cook, a mediocre musician and an awful quarreler.

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

Introverts are often caught between the need to create a persona in order to relate to others and the need to stay true to themselves. When they wrestle with these competing aims, they gain access to more of their functional potential.

To create a memorable voice you must first create a memorable character. Of

Emma - faultless, in spite of her faults

Wouldn't want to tarnish my image by looking like a good guy.

Play the role," Lula said. "That's what we do. We pick a role and we play it. What role you want to play?

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real world because they tell everyone their performance is 'just a show.' And so, people say, 'Oh, it's OK then. We don't care. He's not really a bad person.' It's not just a show for me. It's my life.

Unlike others, I wear my gold at all times. That's why it's become my image and people call me the Gold Man.

Donald Trump, unlikely Mitt Romney, is not awkward about his money. He has absolutely no qualms about saying, 'I'm rich.'

It's very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it's very nice.

It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.

I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

You show up at high school, there's all these kids you don't know, and you're terrified that people will have some kind of wrong or unpleasant impression of you. You just don't want anything to ruin your public persona, because you actually have a public persona in high school.

I really like the idea of being a bit unpredictable. I'm known for being a nice, easy-going person with a straightforward exterior. So I think a bit of me wants to be sort of sly and devious.

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.

I may have my diva moments, but I don't want to get to where I'm considered untouchable.

I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.

Lio Rush, this little guy is a perfect heel manager, updated for modern times.

Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?

I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink-covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside, and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses.