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Quotes About Persona

Bob is just my name, Bobby is my job.
~ Hermann Hesse
He looks down at them and arranges his face. Erasmus says that you must do this each morning before you leave your house: "put on a mask, as it were.
~ Hilary Mantel
In truth you cannot separate them, your public being and your private self.
~ Hilary Mantel
He looks like the good boy he's never been.
~ Holly Black
Perhaps all grown-ups were just children carefully putting on their grown-up disguises each day and then acting accordingly.
~ Liane Moriarty
I manage to hide in my movies.
~ Liev Schreiber
Jasper shook his head. "You're like Jekyll and Hyde." "A gentleman in the streets and a freak in the bed," Irina gasped through her laughter.
~ Unknown
Why would you want to sell millions of people on the illusion that they knew you, when they didn't?
~ Lionel Shriver
That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
~ Lionel Shriver
Girls also use online environments to try on personas that don't really match their actual personalities. By posting risqué comments or images that suggest sophistication, girls sometimes conduct digital experiments in parting with childhood.
~ Unknown
The Joker is a powerful archetype: They are the jester, the dunce, the trickster, and the shape-shifter.
~ Unknown
I was protective of my antisocial persona in many ways. It felt safe to be invisible. No one had any expectations of me, and after eighteen years living in my parents' house it was liberating not to be expected to do anything or be anything. So it was ambiguous, this feeling. On the one hand I wanted to be like these golden girls. On the other I felt far superior to them.
~ Lisa Jewell
Once you had a reputation for being nice you couldn't mess with it.
~ Lisa Jewell
A studio gangster dupes people into believing he's a tough guy, but in reality he's the former student body president and member of the National Honor Society. Once Vanilla Ice was fingered as a studio gangster, his career was over. Thank God.
~ Jemele Hill
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
~ Michael Gambon
I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.'
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
For me, if I'm completely honest, I've always loved playing Captain Hook, also because I've gotten a chance to play so many different variations of him, so I haven't just been playing the same guy day in, day out.
~ Colin O'Donoghue
I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.
~ Ashley Judd
I don't play roles, I play characters. There is a vast difference between the two.
~ Kay Kay Menon
KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
~ Carlos Santana
People are always asking, 'Where does Michael Pennington end and Johnny Vegas begin,' and you're going, 'It's not like that: it's blurred right across.'
~ Johnny Vegas
For me, I never really wanted to be in a 'Sissy Spacek' vehicle. That was not my intention. I got to be the 'Everygirl.'
~ Sissy Spacek
I'd like to believe that my face is very versatile and I can play the uber cool guy as well as the sexy hunk with equal ease.
~ Sunny Singh
You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.
~ Fetty Wap