Quotes About Persona

You can get lost, pretending to be someone you're not.

I am a living label. My name is Labelfeld not Lagerfeld.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Sid Vicious is a thinking man's wrestler!

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

Hey man! I'm a comedian but I'm not a clown.