Quotes About Persona

I just think of myself as a comedian, really.

I was half Catskills comedian, half 1800s matron.

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.

When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an impersonation of a stand-up. This is what I think a stand-up should sound like.

I am very different in real life as compared to whatever people have seen of me on the big screen.

Fame doesn't allow for complexity, especially complexity of character.

Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.

In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

The Vixen character is not quite me. A part of that is putting up this huge front of being strong, impenetrable, really tough and a little bit condescending.

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

Ukip had undertaken a survey on why people wanted to leave the E.U. or not, and they also had membership data. So we were able to build personas out of that. That was work that would normally be paid for.

I've learnt to separate the woman who was my mother from the person who was a movie star. The star has survived, my mother didn't.

I'm not really a swagger guy.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

Rocker dudes don't have a lot of swagger.

Kevin Nash had a swagger about him. A lot of those things that I watch kind of rub off on me.

As cool as Jack Swagger was, he felt choreographed.

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.

People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and think, 'Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!'