Quotes About Persona

Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!

I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.

I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.

I'm not the kind of person you think I am, I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man.

I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.

I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.

I had this alter ego where I would go to the theater with mom. I wasn't embarrassed by it; it was separate for me.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

We all show facets, to your mother, or to your boyfriend, or a friend. You're always a bit different.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

We are what we seem to be.