Quotes About Persona

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

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that I'm not trying to pull a caper.

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

He (Moominpappa) decided to become silent and mysterious, like a Hattifattener. People respected one if one didn't talk. They believed that one knew a great many things and led a very exciting life.

Niceness is an overrated quality. Being nice is how a man pays his way into a party if he hasn't the guts to be tough or the class to be brilliant.

Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch. Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.

Identity?' said Jack, comfortably pouring out more coffee. 'Is not identity something you are born with?' 'The identity I am thinking of is something that hovers between a man and the rest of the world: a mid-point between his view of himself and theirs of him – for each, of course, affects the other continually.

behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

I am not an actress. I am a mistress of disguise. Acting happens to be one of the perks

Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self.

You're breaking out of character, again.

basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.

had numerous pairs of dress chinos and blue blazers and Topsiders, and a smile that looked as though someone had plugged him in.

ast year's Best-Sex-Scene-in-a-film winner Vince Voyeur's real name turns out to be John LaForme. Rhetorical Q.: How, if one's real name was John LaForme, could that person possibly feel the need for a nom de guerre?

Credo di sembrare un tipo normale, forse persino simpatico, anche se mi hanno consigliato di apparire il più normale possibile, e di non provare nemmeno a fare quella che a me parrebbe un'espressione simpatica o un sorriso.

Costumes. The clothes we wear over who we really are. Or really want to be

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!

channeling his assertion that the less that is communicated the better. Be ambiguous. This type of ambiguity could also be diagnosed as dissociation and would support Serena's claim that she has had to split herself off from herself and create different personae. Now

She's a very mysterious creature, with an open smile and a closed soul.