Quotes About Persona

Comedian sort of enjoys the darkness because, essentially, he's a thug. He's just not a nice guy.

I see sometimes how guys may make a buffoon of themselves to sell a few more tickets. They create this image, and when it's all said and done, it's like everything falls out from under them. They have no stability. I never wanted to be one of those guys.

I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he appeared as Dame Edna. So I interviewed the real Barry Humphries in a suit and tie, and then I interviewed Edna in full fig in her dressing room, where she criticised Barry mercilessly.

Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked.

In my early performing days, I played gigs under the pseudonym Whitey McFearsun. I painted my face blue, wore crimson lipstick, and strung on some tight silver latex pants.

people here have become the people they're pretending to be.

Name is a fence and within it you are nameless.

Be the person I'm playing. That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

His controlled composure was making Maddox feel edgy. He could be one of those people who seemed perfectly calm but then randomly snapped.

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative.

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.

I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one.