Quotes About Persona

Want to explain to the kid that I'm more a Spike than a Buffy? A villain, not a superhero?

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.

Clothes do not make the man, but you need the proper costume to play the part.

Appearance is a type of power.

El hábito no hace al monje, pero si quieres interpretar un papel, necesitas el disfraz adecuado.

Todos nos convertimos en lo que fingimos ser.

I simply gave her my most charming smile. I'd already told her the truth of things: I was no gentleman. I was a thief.

My name is Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as "Quothe." Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I've had more names than anyone has a right to.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could manipulate in order to manipulate others. He himself remained invisible, a puppeteer working the strings of his alter-ego from a dark, solitary place behind the curtain

Every time Sachs posed for a picture, he was forced to impersonate himself, to play the game of pretending to be who he was. After a while, it must have had an effect on him. (…) They say that a camera can rob a person of his soul. In this case, I believe it was just the opposite. With this camera, I believe that Sachs's soul was gradually given back to him.

For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others.

For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than this surface to others.

Quién eres tú? Y si crees que lo sabes, ¿por qué insistes en mentir al respecto?

Cuando a un hombre la vida le resulta tolerable sólo si permanece en la superficie de sí mismo, es natural que se sienta satisfecho obteniendo esa misma superficie de los demás

Always remember a useful dictum: every man born of woman is three persons; what he appears to be, what he claims to be and,' he beamed round, 'what he really is.

Philip, whom men nicknamed 'Beautiful'

every man born of woman is three persons; what he appears to be, what he claims to be and,' he beamed round, 'what he really is.

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

Wayne? When I'm famous I'm not gonna speak to anybody—not even the band.' It was a strange thing to say—it stuck in my head." Only then did he reflect how David was always "friendly. But I suppose he was never really giving much away.

Ziggy was David's homage to the outsider; the main inspiration was undoubtedly Iggy, the singer with whom David was obsessed and whose doomed, Dionysian career path had already built its own mythology. David was well aware that Iggy, too, was a mere creation—for in their first meeting, David had learned the scary, gold-and-glitter-spattered facade hid another persona—the urbane Jim Osterberg, who was disconcertingly reminiscent of Jimmy Stewart.

Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. —Oscar Wilde (1891)

and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way.