Quotes About Persona

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

I do play villains.

I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.

I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk this tightrope between charming and creepy, and I always fall on the charming side. I'd like to fall on the creepy side and be like one of those scary old men, like really charming villains.

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

I like to think of myself as a virtuous troll.

Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.

Some people keep their darkness inside, and some hide their light. You, mon ami, almost certainly have a croissant in there.

She's a triumph of image over reality. I'm not even sure if she knows what reality is anymore, she's so busy creating this image of herself.

No one was who they seemed. Everyone was more.

A tone not often let out in public, preferring privacy.

As I have often said, she has two styles of acting: with or without the beard.

not like Nicolas Cage who always just plays Nicolas Cage in every film. Daniel

She always seemed dead anyway, but nicely so, like an illustration or an advertisement.

band mates, audiences or bewildered passers-by on the street. Anyone, as long as he could make a connection. His was not a persona applied for a performance and removed at the end of the evening along with the gold lamé suit,

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

We are never the people we think we are. We are the ones we pretend, with all our hearts we can't become.

She had tried to hide the discomfort behind the mask of competence that she usually wore, only to realize that in her hurry, she must have left it behind somewhere.

It was possible, Trixie supposed, that everyone had two faces: Some of us did a better job of hiding it than others.

It's called acting. It's not all that difficult to be the person people expect you to be. It's harder to remember who your really are.

You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

The roles are like scripts given out for a play. They prescribe what feelings you can or cannot have. After playing my Hero role for years, I no longer really knew who I was.