Quotes About Persona

Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world.

I've not had a deliberate image makeover.

I realized this is a character that I'm playing. This is 'The Crown's' version of Diana. I can bring a lot of what I want to do with this part.

At the end of the day I can't change myself. It's only different characters that I play. And in those it should not be me, Atul Kulkarni, it should be the character that is being played by Atul Kulkarni.

Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.

When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen - people see you as characters walking out of a movie. And you appear in public, then, to play, it's a very schizophrenic thing.

I often play the quote-unquote bad guy, and I don't know why that is but it's just something that I've always hopefully been able to tap into. Maybe I'm harboring some deep, dark secrets that even I don't know about.

Portraying Mozart is a scary task. Whenever I'm asked to portray actual historic figures, it comes with extra accountability. Not just to your director and playwright, but to the man himself and the beloved persona that the public forms.

I think the way you present yourself to the world, whatever kind of task you're tackling, is really important.

In essence, big stars come with a set image, and breaking it becomes a task for certain stories.

I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.

I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

I don't gotta act hard... People be getting face tattoos to act hard.

Some say I don't show much emotion. That's just not my cup of tea.

A lot of players act one way with teammates, one way with reporters, another way for fans, another for their friends. I'm just me all the time. I'm normal. Everyone else in the NFL is weird.

Was that how I appeared? I often thought of myself as a trigger-happy queen bitch and tried to think about my behavior with her these last few days. I had sparred with her a lot, but among the others we'd met, I supposed I had been friendly. Mead, Richelle (2009-08-07). Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 118). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

Every so often deliberately participate in inappropriate behavior, but don't tell anyone. In this way, your public persona shall remain intact.

For the most part, people live their normal lives. Except when at parties, in a group or away from home, then a different person emerges.

William F. Cody the man as distinguished from Buffalo Bill the public figure that we

Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see.

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

N]ot my name, my secret idea of myself.