Quotes About Persona

On telly, if it's not the right kind of show, I revert back to my 'Girlie Show' persona, become this daft, bawdy caricature of myself and I'm not actually like that, I'm actually quite - not clever, but smart with my words.

When you see someone, all you see is what they let you see.

I am become a name.

Her new boss seemed to be a person of many names.

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.

The fake is a person who has rebuilt himself, with a view to occupying another social position than the one that would be natural to him.

And call me Conrad!

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel

I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings; that is the message I address to the other...I advance pointing to my mask.

As always, he presented a cordial façade that disarmed people

Writing is show business for shy people.

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It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.

And how many episodes of being "not yourself" do you get before people figure out this is who you really are? I

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

We are what we pretend to be.

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have

Ego will always conduct itself to make sure that it does not appear bad.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence — either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous 'embarkation' and heroic conquest, or else to annihilate the persona and transcend the ego in an obscure rapture of sensuality, a frenzy of romantic passion, more creditably, in the mutual charity of the perfect marriage.

What is left of you once your clothes have had their say?

represents their "death" to the world as they