Quotes About Persona

Everyone thinks Lily Allen is this brash, bold, funny person. It was all just a bit of a facade and bravado.

To the fans, it does not matter a damn how you are. You are seen as the footballer, the idol, so no one thinks to stop and ask you, 'Hey, how are you?'

Everyone thinks I'm a nice guy, which is not a bad way to be perceived.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated men in suits. it's like you've been giving the same performance for 20 years.

I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson.

When I started working as a writer-director, that's when he became Paul Thomas Anderson and I became Paul W.S. Anderson. Neither of us can write and direct an American movie under the name Paul Anderson.

I'm the most awkward person in the world, but onstage, I'm completely fine. I could run around in a thong and not care.

One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

You can call Kim Kardashian a lot of things but please don't call her socialite! To do so is a slap in the face to every true socialite in the world!

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

You're born naked, the rest is drag.

We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.

We're born naked, and the rest is drag.

You are born naked, the rest is drag.

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

More often than not, she acted as if she wanted to protect him, from the image of herself--herself in the past. She liked to keep only the bright side of herself turned towards him. She liked to shine.

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.