Quotes About Persona

Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am.

Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.

With Jinkx Monsoon, I strive to make her pretty and likable and have this bubbly, lovely personality. But then she can also be the most crass, out of the blue, kooky character.

Bobby Heenan did what every announcer should strive to do and that is to make talent bigger stars than they are and to embellish every talent's TV persona.

I'm not enough of one of those public personalities who feels as though he's been one-dimensionalized. I don't feel that strongly enough.

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

I'm completely the opposite of what I play on 'Game of Thrones.'

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

In 'Mirror Mirror,' I played Prince Charming's side kick Renbock, who was pretty dandy, hapless and innocent. Other than that I've tended to play the complete opposite! I've played gritty, hard characters, generally tough people.

Most of the time when you're around the opposite sex, you kinda have to put on a show and not completely be yourself.

When the camera is on, I am an actor; otherwise, I am an ordinary person.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

When the fans were watching my dad, you could never tell if this was real or is this fake, and that's what made him so special. Every ounce of energy went to being The Nature Boy.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

In the first place, I was never a very outgoing, public person. That was a facade.

It's easy to be loud, outspoken, and play to the gallery. It's difficult to underplay one's self.

I think that when I was younger and had my first round of big success and was plastered on magazine covers in the early and mid-'90s, I was kind of outspoken and had kind of a pretty aggressive attitude in my life.

I've always toyed around with creating over-the-top lady characters in my head.

You have to have an overall vision of how you want people to see you.

I can't show false humility, nor be overly proud and ostentatious.

To be able to change from being essentially a bad guy into a really hot babyface overnight is very hard to do.

Man is not what he thinks he is; he is what he hides. —André Malraux