Quotes About Persona

Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring, but to play someone who just has that under layer of unhappiness, you know that it comes from someplace.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

Can you tell me why people go to such lengths to hide their real selves? Or why I always behave very differently when I'm in the company of others? Why do people have so little trust in one another? I know there must be a reason, but sometimes I think it's horrible that you can't ever confide in anyone, not even those closest to you.

Anyone can put on a charming exterior when they want to.

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Nobody contrived for Stevie to be a foxy chick. It just emerged. She moves and dances purely because she likes dancing. But she has a split personality. Onstage she's the goddess of whatever, but offstage she's very often like a little old lady with a cold or a sore throat. Yet she's amazing—she can feel like shit before she goes onstage but then she goes out there and pulls out the stops.

In the case of personality, most psychologists agree that there are five traits that are essential in how people look at us: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.

No surname? Or is Thorn it?" "Thorn is all anyone needs to know about me." "As in thorn up all our collective nether regions," Devyl muttered.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

We are who people think we are.

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

My life feels so surreal. That's why I've made a shtick of being me.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.

There's just something about me and my persona that's a little bit bigger than life and ridiculous at times.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too.

There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

The number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife.

I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.