Quotes About Persona

It is well, if one has nothing, to acquire an air.

I learned very early to choose my lines carefully. I still have a terrible habit, when people pause too long between words, of feeding them their line. I know my lines in advance. I dress for occasions, for personae. There are women in my closet, hanging on my hangers, a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes. I hoard clothes. My makeup spills from the bathroom drawers, and there are different women for different lipsticks.

We only reveal what we want other people to know, right? It's like we create fictional characters for the public. And inside we're somebody totally different.

we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful who we pretend to be.

I don't feel like a romantic lead I guess I feel more like a character actor.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

Having a name online means no more than it being written on a paper sheet.

What I mean is how public people almost eagerly dehumanize themselves. They allow the markings of region, family, class, individual character, and, generally, personhood that they once possessed to be leached away. At the same time, they construct a new public self that often does terrible damage to what remains of the genuine person.

Shadows suited him. On James they skittered and fled, even in the dark, leaving him bright and shining. On Alex they clung and caressed, dressing him in mystery.

Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!

Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long!

but then we all know that actors shouldn't be allowed out when they're not on stage. The

Says Sullivan, "Those guys used to get together in the van and put their hands all together and then Paul would say, 'Where are we going?' And the band would go, 'To the middle!' And he'd go, 'Which middle?' And they'd go, 'The very middle!' " But it was all false modesty. The Replacements, it seemed, secretly believed in themselves and yet adopted a loser persona to insulate themselves against failure.

rare indeed was the soul who remained unaffected by his own public image.

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.

In public, one always wears a social mask, a presentation to the world. Even when you're alone and look in a mirror, you're acting, which is one reason Knight never kept a mirror in his camp. He let go of all artifice; he became no one and everyone.

Ralph Fiennes

He is the antithesis of the gregarious pol with a highball in one hand and a cigar in his mouth, offering a colorful dose of political lore under a dim bar light.

A celebrity once-removed, driving his groupies agog, but then not flaunting it, and not asking for it, either.

Trump lived, like Hulk Hogan, as a real-life fictional character.

Trump often spoke of himself in the third person. Trump did this. The Trumpster did that. So powerful was this persona, or role, that he seemed reluctant, or unable, to give it up in favor of being president—or presidential.

That was almost his appeal: he was what he was. Twinkle in his eye, larceny in his soul.

the president-elect wore what some around him had taken to calling his golf face: angry and pissed off, shoulders hunched, arms swinging, brow furled, lips pursed. This had become the public Trump—truculent Trump.