Quotes About Persona

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.

I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.

Confidence isn't something you prove to people, it's something that comes off from who you are and how you represent yourself.

As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an easy, capacious confidence that says he has faith in his readers.

People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well.

This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

Being Zuckerman is one long performance and the very opposite of what is thought of as being oneself.

They don't know you're secretly a badass?

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

meaning is everywhere contested. Each of their missions is instead meant to bring truth and its consequences into the life of someone who has woven a persona of lies, thereby putting an end to his or her crimes. There's no doubt that Lucia deserves to be terrified

Charming as he was, you never felt fully comfortable with the guy, because he never seemed fully comfortable with himself.

He was actually capable of dressing himself, though both he and Tom acted on the tacit assumption that he wasn't. But what he missed most at the moment was the sense of solemn ceremony that attended Tom's dressing him in full uniform. It was as though he assumed a different persona with scarlet coat and gold lace, Tom's respect giving him belief in his own authority, as though he put on not only uniform but armor and office.

People just associate me with comedy - not that I mind. I don't mind that at all.

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

I can see how people would just assume I am a no-nonsense kind of girl, you know? But the truth is, it's not who I am. But when I need to be, I can be tough.

I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

Everybody is in drag.

My drag name was Revvlon.

I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.

I've always called myself 'Mr. Dull Guy.'

Most stars are bad. Even a few big heroes I have seen are dumb.

A lot of people know who I am before I've met them, which is a weird dynamic.

I had to learn some hard lessons in my early days because I was a bit of a showman, a kind of Jekyl and Hyde character.