Quotes About Persona

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.

Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.

Much as I'm loving the 'Strictly' experience, I'm sure I'll always be better known for my business career and my appearances on 'Dragons' Den' than I will for my cha-cha-cha or Viennese waltz.

I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!

I can't specify this enough: when cameras go on, everybody wanna be big and tough. You're not like that in real life.

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

I wanna be more of a pop public figure, iconic kinda dude.

As Laurel Van Ness it's so much fun, and with that comes a creative outlet. You can be who you wanna be and be that particular character. I'm so thankful that Impact allows me to do that.

I don't want to be Boogie. I just wanna be DeMarcus.

People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all of that. You could just get really lost in that kind of image.

I don't maybe follow the normal star profile, and it's not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.

After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.

Any character, for me, always comes together in the hair, makeup, and wardrobe. Shoes especially. For some reason, shoes really do it for me because they help me figure out how the character walks.

I think it always helps when you build a character, and then, you actually step into that character's wardrobe, something else happens. Another angle of the character comes to life.

For me, as an actor, with any character I'm playing, wardrobe brings a whole other aspect. Once I have the clothing on, it helps the transformation.