Quotes About Persona

No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

There was certainly more to him than

The clause "whose inside is not like his outside" is used elsewhere in the Talmud (b. Yoma "The Day" 72b) to indicate a person who puts on a nice show for others that does not conform to his inner, true self—a morally deceptive person in other words.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

I'm a walking reality show.

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

You have all these different reality shows, all social media, all these different things where people have to act a certain way to get attention.

I love acting. It's what I've done all my life, and to me, it's a lot easier than doing reality television because you get into a character, you remember your lines, and you go home and leave it all behind at the end of the day.

It's like I'm coming to a realization that I'm not Terence Trent D'Arby. I'm the soul playing a role of this character that was written.

For some reason, people enjoy seeing me lose my cherub-like demeanor.

Every actor I know - any reasonable actor I know - is complicated. What you see and what they are, those are two very different things.

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

I am basically very introvert and shy, but when in the presence of the audience, my celeb image requires me to reciprocate their affection.

When you are a public personality, you can't afford to be a recluse.

Every time I do a film, I have to make sure that when someone looks at me, they can't recognise Disha. It has to be a character. I want to do strong roles.

It's great when people recognise you as 'Karan Wahi' and not a character you have played.

When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

I've never figured out who 'Heath Ledger' is on film: 'This is what you expect when you hire me, and it will be recognizable.'

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

I don't know how people recognize me.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.