Quotes About Persona

I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.

When I'm by myself, I'm really cool and nice to everyone, but then the whole paparazzi thing? If you see me with my kids, I change.

When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.

I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.

Your Personal Brand is the mental picture your prospects get when they think about you.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed

I spend more time being what I am: a writer, not the visiting celebrity.

I think that's one of the first things you'd say if you met me: that I am just nice and smiley. And that's how I might appear when I'm not competing. But I'm totally different when it comes to sport. It's just something that seems to be within me. It's not external or visual. But it's within me.

Early in my career, playing a character was vital. I had to be Thomas Penmanship because I couldn't be Tommaso because he is a shy kid, so I had to create an alter-ego.

I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.

Roxy Music' and 'For Your Pleasure,' those exercises in learning and unlearning of accent and manners, are Pop's equivalent of 'The Talented Mr Ripley.' The clothes , the bearing and the voice are faked, but not yet perfectly.

I always try to make a voice to go with the characteristics - if the guy's a hothead or he's cool, whatever.

Voices have always been my way into a character. I usually approach the voice first.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

I'm always thinking about songs and how I can sing a song that would resonate with my voice, my persona. I want it to be a pleasant experience that's not just about hearing my voice. I remember some singers whose voices were so pretty, it didn't matter what they sang - you loved it.

I've always had volume on my side: the big-voice-in-a-small-package thing. I surprise people.

Most people say when they get on screen, the most successful acts are people who are just themselves and turn the volume up. But in my situation, I gotta turn the volume down.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

When I came up with the Alexa Bliss character, I wanted to be the girl that everyone knew. There was always that girl in high school who was mean to everybody. She was mean and rude, but everyone still voted for her to be homecoming queen. That girl. And I wanted to portray that girl.