Quotes About Persona

Someone who's fake is someone who acts one way around their family and their close friends, but once they get out in the public, they're this whole different person.

I don't like Drake as a person. He's just fake to me.

A lot of people think that celebrities are fake, and a couple of them are.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

I think money, power, fame changes people a lot.

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.

I would not openly categorize myself as a sullen teenager, but that kind of role comes more easier to me than a bright, perky thing.

In my teens, I was very insecure. And so I invented Roger Moore.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.

I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but there is a difference between the John Cena character you see on television and me as a human being.

I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

In 1965, Cosby had become the first black man ever to star in a prime-time television show; he was conscious enough of his non-dissolved, traditional nuclear family that he made it the foundation of his public persona, his comedy act, and eventually of his blockbuster sitcom.

In the old days, a star was someone up there - you know, Greta Garbo - but a telly star was somebody you could approach.

Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.

I don't like to think I am a celebrity; I am just a bloke on the telly.

When youre on telly, youre defined by what you do on telly.