Quotes About Persona

Even the most damaged and disenchanted teenager was only waiting for someone to see the real persona beneath the defense and respond with genuine caring. (63)

So far as other people are concerned, you are your behaviour; so far as you are concerned, you are your thoughts and feelings.

Who does not end up a female impersonator?

First of all, people are always pretending to be what they are," said his father. "That's basically a philosophical question. Part of being something is pretending to be it.

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas," David Bowie told an interviewer in 1972, the same year he scored pop superstardom with his iconic Ziggy Stardust persona. Twenty years later, Bowie confessed that while filling auditoriums with impassioned fans back then, "I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem

Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

As a private person, professionally I am invisible.

You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it's a good idea. But I can't do it.

It's a little challenging as a congressman to keep a low profile, but I try very hard to keep a low profile.

I'm always playing the nice guy in most of the projects that I do.

Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.

I am very diplomatic when I'm in front of the media or when I am going out for promotions and stuff. But, usually, I'm a very straight forward person.

Actors don't like promotions, but I love it because I feel someone is actually interested in knowing me!

The whole concept of ECW was that the biggest star of the promotion was the promotion itself. It didn't matter if a persona was designed to elicit cheers or boos. It didn't matter if someone was an antagonist or protagonist. The whole concept was to fight for the honor of the cause. The cause was ECW itself.

The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

The 'everymum' persona is quite a comfortable coat to put on, and in a way it protects you. I don't think I'm being deceptive. I like the women I play, so I'm very happy to be identified with them.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few faculties of a man highly developed; the rest simply isn't there.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

She is by no means a model character.

Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person.

She's got an indiscreet voice,' I remarked. 'It's full of——' I hesitated. 'Her voice is full of money,' he said suddenly.