Quotes About Persona

Day by day, the superficial mask she'd donned chafed more and more; and no matter how many disguises Persis took on as the Poppy, she couldn't help but feel they fit her better than the one she wore at home.

somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons.

Harriet loved her new persona. As Maxine, she was courageous and accomplished, a woman of sophistication equally at home in Cannes or on the Indian subcontinent. As Maxine she didn't walk, she strode; she did not merely see, but beheld. The very air she breathed was bracing. Here was a conqueror of worlds.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

That's all right, Neal thought. Every one of us is at least two people.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

I'm Harry Bushman.

She still has that freshman-year reputation though. She acts like she doesn't care, but I know she does, at least a little.

There's two kinds of people, kid: the kind who pretend they are, and the kind who pretend they aren't. Take my advice and don't be neither.

Ask her to play a role—she was happy. Ask her to be Lucille Ball and she immediately became self-conscious and ill at ease.

The ego will receive the reward of moral recognition by the collective to the exact extent to which it succeeds in identifying with the persona, the collectivized façade personality – the simple reason being that this façade personality is the visible sign of agreement with the values of the collective.

Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.

He was a boy born to be quite wicked who was being very good and he carried his wickedness around with him transmuted into a sort of teasing gaiety. But he was a bad boy and the others knew it and he knew it. He was just being good while his badness grew inside him.

Gable suited MGM because Gable was larger than life. Cagney suited Warner Brothers because Cagney was life.