Quotes About Persona

I smile, the kind of professional smile that might convey anything at all (...)

But then I knew better than anyone how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was really inside.

But that wasn't how Carter rolled.

she'd heard he was some sort of karate honcho, occasionally

Her basic disposition was a good deal sunnier than mine. But I was a better faker.

No one is really who people think they are. It's unfair. When they give us nicknames and create a story for us, everyone expects us to be that person and to live up to that legend.

Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.

I act like shit don't phase me. Inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.

We're all born nameless, aren't we? And the name we end up with has only peripherally to do with our family tree.

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

La sua sincerità aveva un che di abbacinante, e ogni volta che diceva una cosa - qualsiasi cosa - riusciva a nebulizzare interesse e fascino attorno a sé e si vedeva lontano chilometri che le sue non erano pose.

Adam Cullen was a unique and larger-than-life figure in contemporary Australian art," it began. "His public persona obscured to a certain extent his significant contribution to art practice … The pathos of his subject matter also has a form of abject beauty, the beauty of the decayed and coming apart, of a humanity that is to be found in failed endeavours, misunderstandings and missed connections.

Some abandon everything for the outward shell, in the interest of "glitter and looks", let freeze themselves in artificial postures and renounce realness and sense of self, for the sake of fake appearances, which do not belong to their personality. They live through the eyes of others and cannot enjoy an individual life. Their pathetic fate is an impressive lack of authenticity, spontaneity, candidness, which is a unique key to an open-minded existence. ("Like a frozen image")

Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me.

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee

William Gerbers" was a German-Swiss businessman living in Liverpool who had been conjured into being by Garbo before he even arrived in Britain.

This was a wonderfully surreal moment: the real Montagu addressing his fictional persona, in a work of filmic fiction, based on reality, which had originated in fiction.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

The way a character looks reflects what's on the inside. I can make myself look really bad, and I can make myself look kind of gorgeous. It's not about me; it's about the character.

Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and I feel like everyone judges people: regardless of whether they know someone or not, they have an opinion based on the persona of the person. I guess you can only have a real opinion of who they are as a person once you meet someone.

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn't do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.

David Bowie, who spent most of the '70s establishing himself as a master of psychological disguises, is spending the '80s trying to convince us that he's just a regular fella - or at least as close to one as a millionaire pop star can be.

I don't look like Hollywood Guy. I'm a regular guy.