Quotes About Persona

I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.

I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus.

A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

I didn't want to make a caricature version of Elektra.

Tully was the first young, handsome, cocky, well-dressed bad guy. He was our version of Ric Flair before I knew who Ric Flair was. This was before cable TV or any of that, and Tully was our Ric Flair.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

Anybody can be charming if they don`t mind faking it.

What's Hemingway?" Astor said. I watched the crowd of look-alikes milling around on the sidewalk, jostling each other and slurping beer. "A man who grew a beard and drank a lot," I said.

Whenever you're interviewed, think British, act Yiddish

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

A volte penso di aver qualcuno dentro, ma è un'altra parte di me, più strana. A volte la vedo nello specchio.

Inside his house, a kid gets one name, but on the other side of the door, it's whatever the rest of the world wants to call him.

For me, I was really struggling because I was Scott Hall in the gym and Scott Hall in the grocery store and in the ring. Until I got a gimmick, a look, and got to be a character, that's when I started making strides. As Scott Hall, I didn't have a gimmick, so I didn't know what to do.

A lot of people think I'm stuck up. Pretty much that I'm arrogant. I only do that when I'm on the field.

I've often thought I'm a short music hall comedian stuck in a leading man's body.

I am Michael Render - that's what my mom named me. 'Killer Mike' is what my dumb friends called me in a rap battle once, and it stuck.

Ke$ha is her art; there is no curtain you peel back to find the real person. And with Ke$ha, you never know what to expect when you're in the studio.

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

I act like I'm a bit stupid.

I get involved in the political, but I don't bring it to the stage because that's not my style.

Style is character.

Style is the image of character.

I'm just a Harlem dude that can rap, and people dig my style and persona.

I'd rather have no nickname, but with my style, you can't really put a name on it.