Quotes About Persona

Perhaps identity, like hell, was merely other people.

This was the end of Dickie Greenleaf, he knew. He hated becoming Thomas Ripley again, hated being nobody, hated putting on his old set of habits again, and feeling that people looked down on him and were bored with him unless he put on an act for them like a clown, feeling incompetent and incapable of doing anything with himself except entertaining people for minutes at a time.

I don't want you to think that I'm so good as you put it. I have a little evil side, too. I just keep it well hidden. - Victor Van Allen

you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful, or thoughtful, or courteous, you simply had to act those things with every gesture.

Past a certain point, maybe, a person's character defines itself and stays fixed in your mind.

A human figure approaching, filling itself in slowly, putting on age and sex and race, like items of clothing

I'm going to open a new Facebook account named 'Anonymous' so all the cool quotes will be attributed to me!

Be as you wish to seem.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

You never play age, you play character.

Dressed up, he never looked like he was wearing his own clothes.

I've always been considered an asshole for about as long as I can remember. That's just my style.

he appeared not at all auctorial in the insufferable sense of the word (I think of writers who pose with their dogs, or hold questionable medical devices, or mousse their hair until its specific gravity resembles that of pound cake).

I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts, but you can call me 'Weasley.

A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups.

Your cowboy persona meshed so well with the dreams Chris has of the torn and silent men she's been rejected by. The fact that you don't return messages turns your answerphone into a blank screen onto which we can project our fantasies.

He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.

When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them, you're meeting their representative.

Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

At a certain point, it seems more polite to just become the person people assume you to be.

The art of hiding in plain sight used to be second nature, and now it has become the whole of him

Mucho antes de que Billy Wilder fuera Billy Wilder, ya se comportaba como si fuera Billy Wilder

To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who knew her.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?