Quotes About Persona

Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.

Just what kind of a person are you, Miss Lea?" I fixed my mask in place before replying

I feel artificially myself. I'm someone who's supposed to be me.

I am the false character that follows the name around.

Son nuestros secretos los que nos definen, y no la cara que mostramos al mundo.

Smith. Jones. Who the fuck cares? It's not your real name anyway.

It's been said that we're all three people: the one we see ourselves as being, the one others see us as being, and the one we really are.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60. -Jack Nicholson

Even his name remained mysterious. Just Shane. Nothing else. We never knew whether that was his first name or last name or, indeed, any name that came from his family. "Call me Shane," he said, and that was all he ever said. But I conjured up all manner of adventures for him, not tied to any particular time or place, seeing him as a slim and dark and dashing figure coolly passing through perils that would overcome a lesser man.

She was a contradiction like that, you know. The things she wrote down were warmer than her, in person. That sounds like she's dead, he thought. Well, in a way, she is, you know, in a way she is dead. — 'How To Get Away With Suicide

One of the first tasks a writer faces is the need to form an ethos, a way of being in the world, that permits the writer to create and present to the world a dynamic speaking and writing self.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

I like people thinking I'm an asshole. Being an asshole is my life's vocation; I'm a goddamned asshole professional.

Each of us—on the outside, in front of others—dresses in dignity, but inside himself he is well aware of these unconfessable things that pass through the secrecy of his heart.

Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.

They signed in as Mr. P. Villa and Mrs. S. Hayek.

Mussolini was not an original thinker, but he was a gifted actor who could play a role.

don't forget the value of who you are no matter what kind of hat you are wearing.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

My standup persona is like I'll heighten things, but I'm observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.