Quotes About Persona

You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

In me all affections take place on the surface, but sincerely. I've always been an actor, and in earnest. Whenever I've loved, I've pretended to love, pretending it even to myself.

Each us is more than one person, many people, a proliferation of our one self. That's why the same person who scorns his surroundings is different from the person who is gladdened or made to suffer by them. In the vast colony of our being there are many different kinds of people, all thinking and feeling differently.

Who am I behind this unreality? I don't know. I must be someone. And if I do not seek to live, to act or to feel, it is — believe me — so as not to disturb the already laid-down lines of my false persona.

I have never been anything more than a mere vestige, a simulacrum of myself.

Each of us is several, is many, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. (Text 396)

Not even I know if this I that I'm disclosing to you, in these meandering pages, actually exists or is but a fictitious, aesthetic concept I've made of myself.

Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.

My last name's kind of interesting - Farmer. I don't really think it's interesting for the stage. I think Lynne kind of had a better ring to it.

I have always wanted to tell Miranda's backstory. To me, it's so fascinating that as a YouTuber, everyone knows what we show them. No one knows what goes on when the cameras are off. I always thought, what would Miranda do in her time off?

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.

My father's a character.

Some of my favourite record and album covers and stuff have all been the singer, and they create a character, and they dress up a little bit.

I'm brave and fearless when I'm performing, but in real life, I'm actually quite prudish.

I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that, I don't always feel good. I get a lot more catharsis from taking pictures or painting or making short films.

When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow.

I'm not really a femme fatale.

I think that Miley is getting a chance to be who she really is, after years of having to be a fictional character on TV.

There is a certain fictional element that goes in playing a common person.

Winnie Harlow is my alter ego like how Beyonce refers to her stage name as Sasha Fierce.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

I don't like to filter myself, but I do it for PR's sake.

Even if you don't think you filter your life on social media, by its very nature you're only showing part of yourself.