Quotes About Persona

I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

You know how Beyonce has Sasha Fierce? That's how I am. When I go out onstage, I become a different person.

Taking pictures and stuff, I'm kind of like, shy, but you couldn't tell onstage.

I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.

I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.

Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.

When I am on the opera stage, I am playing someone else. In recitals, I even have the chance to talk to the audience, which is something you don't get to do in opera.

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

Dale una máscara a un hombre y te dirá la verdad

It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression.

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Your cynicism is simply a pose.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.

When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.

Paris Hilton

Because she is an actress, she has fashioned an entire career out of identity theft.

People, feelings, everything! Double! Two people in each person. There's also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part of you, somewhere in the world, and he waits in ambush.