Quotes About Persona

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.

Everybody put on masks, including you and me. We all wear masks.

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.

Every man has three worlds. What he perceives, what he shows to the world and his reality. The third one is the mystery to be lived.

I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.

Politics is show business for ugly people.

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

People by and large will relate to the image you project.

Let your personality be your profit and not your punishment.

We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

Ms. Price smiled, but it was more indulgent than warm, the kind of smile used only by people who have to work hard at appearing nonthreatening.

I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it.

I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

I've always been a very good heel!

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

For me, I have to go out and people have to already like me for my promo to be good.