Quotes About Persona

The Miz is a character I created. He's basically a wrestling star.

When I started wrestling and then turned into the Evil Queen, I created this character who I needed in my personal life. This woman who is strong, intelligent, confident, empowering. That's what I needed in my personal life.

If I had my career to do over again, I think I would wrestle under my real name, John Hennigan, because if there was some sort of brand test associated with professional wrestling, I would hardcore fail that test because I have so many names, it's confusing to me, even.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

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

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

People are really surprised when they meet me that I'm a recluse. People think I'm very gregarious and outgoing - and I am - I'm thinking about writing a book about it called 'The Gregarious Recluse.' How the more that you put me out there in front of audiences, the more that when I have down time I have to disappear.

He made his character his platform.

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

I've always been perceived as a tough guy.

Hiding behind a tougher outer image as a teenager feels cooler and safer compared to admitting, perhaps, that you're the very opposite.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

Drag queens always base their personas on their favorite female icons. Mine was Barbie, who's not necessarily a human but is as iconic and beautiful as any woman. I started really pushing it because I hit a crossroads of, 'I don't want to look like a woman or a man. I want to look like a wind-up toy, a plaything manufactured in a factory.'

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

Part of my trademark is my blue sunglasses and cross earrings, which I always have.

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

None of the shades of blue can paint the character of few men.

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got, and 50% what people think you've got." —SOPHIA LOREN

Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible to return to the person she used to be.

She had grown so accustomed to this exterior that she didn't always remember what truly lay underneath. Nor did she particularly want to. Why fester in disillusion, bewilderment, and anger when she could float above and pretend to be this sunny, charming girl instead?

Teenagers make it clear that games, worlds, and social networking (on the surface, rather different) have much in common. They all ask you to compose and project an identity.