Quotes About Persona

Clark Kent, I suppose, had a little bit of Harold Lloyd in him.

When I went to WCW, I was never supposed to go in there as Terra Ryzing.

The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society's obsession with identity, because I'm not sure that I really believe identity exists.

I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?

The surface is all you get of me.

People aren't expecting me to look how I do. But that's one of the main reasons it works so well: the surprise factor.

I think as an actor you've got to try to preserve some of your mystery so that there's still an element of surprise about where characters come from.

It's awesome to have the fans come up and say, 'Hey, Duck, what's up?' When people call me Devlin, it catches me by surprise.

I am honestly very intimidated when I meet new people and they expect me to be the onscreen Vir. On stage, I say a lot of things I might never say in real life; I am never the life of the party. People are quite surprised to see that I am more of a quiet artiste off stage.

I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.

No visible scars. Hair dark brown, some gray. Eyes brown. Height six feet, one half inch. Weight about one ninety. Name Philip Marlowe. Occupation private detective.

Or can I call you Phil? Sure. You can can me Vivian. Thanks, Mrs. Regan. Oh, go to hell, Marlowe.

She went out slowly. The way she did it hadn't been learned at business college.

Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal...

Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal, and there have been major disappointments in recent years.

Vestis virum facit.

McLaughlin is a lean, dark man who looks a little like the TV version of Boston Blackie.

name is Markos, he said. But call me Marco.

for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as.

From what I did and what I said Let them not seek to find who I was

She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sparkling and witty while she was doing it, which somehow felt wrong.

Up there I'm just passing as me.

No matter how many faces I have, there is no changing the fact that I am me. I was just attempting to fill in a too-long intermission in my life with a trivial "masked play.

you yourself were split into several parts. Just as I had a double existence, you did too. If I was another person wearing a stranger's mask, you were another person wearing the mask of yourself. Another wearing the mask of himself … a gruesome combination.…