Quotes About Persona

I'm not chic, I could never be chic.

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time.

And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian.

My artist name is actually my real name - Denzel Curry.

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

I don't want people to just see me as that cute girl in 'Dil Maange More' or 'Wanted.'

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.

Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

For a long time I wasn't allowed to be anything but 'The Governess' when I went on TV, even if I went on a talk show I had to be in costume. I mean guys, I own clothes!

The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask.

I'd become a corporate rock musician. I worked for 'Chris Rea.' He felt like another person. I even talked about him in the third person.

I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people - just talking bad.

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.