Quotes About Persona

People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.

It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

Most people think the character I do onstage is the way I am offstage, but I'm just a regular guy who spends time with his family and who turns on the television and watches a lot of sports.

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

Even at the age of eighteen, he thought suddenly, she had been an expert in the wearing of masks. One would never have known that the sunny-natured girl had grown up in such a home.

I had forgot that you have discovered my darkest secret—that I am a gentleman at heart.

Persiflage is my nom de guerre. (Don't use foreign expressions. It's elitist.)

With the red wig and her own work clothes, she thought she cut a pretty fine Black Widow herself.

Noah was many things, but funny was not one of them.

that archetype is a closed man.

then, she knew better than most that the face a person chose to show the world wasn't always the real one. Everyone had a story. Not everyone wanted to share.

This Asiatic pose was a side of Stalin almost no one saw.

It is character that communicates most eloquently...In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

We can "pose" and "put on" for a stranger or an associate. We can pretend. And for a while we can get by with it—at least in public. We might even deceive ourselves. Yet I believe that most of us know the truth of what we really are inside; and I think many of those we live with and work with do as well.

In the words of William George Jordan, "Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be." T

Identity was something known in a way utterly removed from the vessel that carried it.

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

They love me for what I'm not They hate me for what I am.

Brunette is who I am obviously, it's my core. Blonde Kim is this alter ego; she has a vibe to her that I love.

I'm not a movie star. I'm a brand name. Van Damme is like Levi's. I go on vacation, and everywhere I go, people love me for my name, not for my movies.