Quotes About Persona

I definitely do have a persona onstage. I definitely am a completely different person, but I'm still having a lot of fun and there's a lot of acting that goes into it. But I haven't been playing many shows when I'm working on acting as much because it's tiring, number one. And number two, it's hard for your mind to makeup what it wants to do.

I've always been fond of the glam-rocker title.

I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.

You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.'

There is always a human being behind the titles and the status.

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

We're all playing a role. You're playing a role at home, you're playing a role at work, you're playing a role to survive.

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

I don't think I have any set image, and I don't want one. If I think I'm getting a particular image, I try and break it. I find it very important to keep the audience guessing and keep them on their toes.

I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

A tip for you-Little Miss Innocent routine only works when there's a credible belief that innocence is possible.

Gentle reader, allow me to introduce Kyle Murchison Booth. You will forgive him if he does not shake hands.

There was the way she moved and the way she looked at people and the way she'd turned herself into Nobbie Wainwright on the way Aiaia. She'd been playing a governess when we met her, but that wasn't what she was.

Like the size and composition of a work, the walk and talk of an artist has to persuade, not just others but the performers themselves. Whether they have colorful, large-scale personas or minimal, low-key selves, believable artists are always protagonists, never secondary characters who inhabit stereotypes. For this reason, I see artists' studios as private stages for the daily rehearsal of self-belief.

The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger, make a 'character' of yourself. It was tiring, sometimes, when you hadn't the energy for it; that's all.

The man has more masks than a whole troupe of Italian players.

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.

Think of your face as a mask. That's what it is, after all. A mask. Facing outward. Worn from the day you were born. Slave to your every mental command. Seen by everyone you meet. But never by you. Open its eyes now. Just think it. The mask will obey.

It's great to be able to pretend you're tough but funny at the same time.

My professional persona never loosens its grip, keeping an eye on me at all times.

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.