Quotes About Persona

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

It wasn't so much figuring out my voice comedically, because that was always pretty clear. It was more about performing and being a good, watchable performer.

There's that part of you as a performer that when you're told you're gonna be a fan favorite, you think 'Oh man, I better smile more and be kinder, let the people in more' I kinda had to fight all those instincts and just be like 'No, no no, you're gonna walk at the same pace, do everything with the same cadence, do everything the same.'

We have some of the best in-ring performers in the world, but they are also some of the best characters.

When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

We're all performing for someone.

When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume.

My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.

I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.'

Off-camera, I sound like Perry Como.

When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.

'Billy on the Street' is a persona. It's crafted; it has writers. It's a mixture of performance art and comedy.

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.

He was very sweet, but just his persona was intimidating. He was Gregg Allman. I think a lot of people had that feeling when they met him.

People will listen to a song and expect that you just have that persona on all the time. But really, that was your one outlet that one day to get that emotion out. The only difference was you put it on a canvas that's going to be there forever.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.