Quotes About Persona

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

The public Louis was a man you couldn't fault.

The real me isn't the person I describe, no the real me is the me revealed by my actions.

Your true personality is not the outer you but the inner you not the person you present to the world but the person you hide from the world

Success is not so much what you are but rather what you appear to be.

The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience.

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.

But sometimes when you wore a mask for a very long time, it became your face.

I have forgotten my mask and my face was in it. Man

am discovering her pretenses. She is always smiling, gay, but underneath she feels unreal, remote, detached from experience. She acts as if she were asleep. She is trying to awaken by falling into bed with anyone who invites her.

He was never dressed, but costumed to suit some mood of a new self. He was in disguise.

Su papel en la vida la tiene absorbida. Sé muy bien por qué: su belleza le acarrea dramas y acontecimientos. Las ideas significan poco. Vi en ella una caricatura de personaje teatral y dramático. Disfraz, actitudes, forma de hablar. Es una actriz soberbia. Sólo eso. No he podido llegar a su interior.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Somehow she was becoming the kind of woman she didn't like, somebody who felt one way but smiled it off in a mask of cheerfulness, the kind of woman who got very good at small talk.

but can one "get" an edge any more than one can "get" a sense of humor? Or do you fake it, the way a humorless businessman memorizes jokes and is considered "a riot," leaving parties before he runs out of material?

I am a deeply superficial person.

As if I was never nicknamed 'Wednesday' as in 'Adams'.

Men leave only an impression of their

In società ognuno viene preso per come si presenta; ma deve presentarsi in qualche modo. Alle persone insignificanti si preferiscono le persone scomode.

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [...] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22]

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

all presented one face to the world, and kept another hidden. Nobody could survive in it otherwise.