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Quotes About Persona

Bruce Wayne needs a sense of humor to do his job. Batman, for a very long time, was going to a very dark place.
~ Paul Dini
I always knew the way in was Bruce Wayne. It wasn't Batman. It was never Batman. That was the key.
~ Michael Keaton
In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.
~ Jarvis Cocker
I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it. Maybe things would have gone differently for me in some ways if I had.
~ Alan Alda
I like to do on screen what I'm not in life. In life, I'm much more weak and insecure, and so then you know I like to play characters that are stronger than me.
~ Monica Bellucci
I'm a short, fairly plain person who's bluffing his case and getting away with it.
~ James Blunt
I think people got this idea that I wanted to be a star. Managers of the past don't have any kind of public persona - it's all about the fame of the artist. I really don't want to be a star. I just want to have a platform.
~ Scooter Braun
As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.
~ Loni Anderson
I am happy to play the bad man.
~ Amrish Puri
I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.
~ Sean Pertwee
I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.
~ Robert Griffin III
I have always played the cheerful girl next door, especially on the Internet, and this film is a break from that. My character is more moody and bratty in 'Karwaan.'
~ Mithila Palkar
When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.
~ Sasha Grey
I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.
~ Bjorn Borg
I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.
~ John Hodgman
I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.
~ Gregory Maguire
There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.
~ Anne Carson
Now I've become classy, else I would not have been on 'Koffee with Karan.'
~ Rakhi Sawant
I'm a showman. I believe that you're a character every time you put on clothes.
~ Erika Jayne
I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.
~ Nathan Lane
When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown.
~ Nora Dunn
I know how to make myself very, very cocky and annoying. That's my character. I enjoy doing it. People hate it. But I don't mind it when people hate it.
~ The Miz
A lot of people think I'm a comedian.
~ Dolly Parton
I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.
~ Kevin Nealon