Quotes About Persona

An actress projects herself exactly the way she wants to.

I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I'm used to playing characters that are so different to me and I love that; it's my safety blanket and I hide behind the character.

I manage to hide in my movies.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

I'm an actress. You can hide behind your character when you're acting - you're not being yourself.

I believe I am a character actor who likes to hide behind my characters.

I'm really good at hiding my emotions.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.

Comedy is a way of hiding - especially character comedy.

I'm not a Beverly Hills dude.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

Affectations can be dangerous.

You get the wig on, you put the lipstick on, you get the big eyelashes on and that's the GC. It's like Paul O'Grady when he does Lily Savage... But when I'm not working, I don't wear a scrap of makeup.

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

I can understand everybody associates me with Karen, but beyond that, I think after time passes and a few years go by, that sort of becomes a non-issue. That character is far - I mean really, all the characters I've played are pretty far away from what I'm really like.

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.

I'm tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes... the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky.