Quotes About Persona

There's no really signature Leo DiCaprio role, like Jack Nicholson is Jack Nicholson no matter what movie he's in.

Modeling is really silent acting.

What really ticks me off is how the public figures you automatically become the roles you play. What most people never see is the silly side of me.

Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn't forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.

He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.

Whatever I want to do or say, I get to do it on the silver screen, so in normal life I don't feel the necessity to do or say anything.

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.

I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?

I am not as simple as I look.

I have one mind for the master to see. I have another mind for what I know is me.

Is there more to me than the roles I live out? Can I open up to my identity apart from them, to the knowledge that I'm more than the personas I create?

John Barleycorn's final words: "I've had more friends in private and more foes in public than any other man in America.

to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.

Your energy introduces yourself before you even speak.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

Most of all Digby deserved a father. I could vet Batman forever if I wanted. I would eventually see past his shiny second-date persona to his flaws, whatever they might be. Maybe he'd turn out to be a bit of a jackass, but there was a righteous jackass in my Birchie's kitchen right now, and he was fixing necessary cocoa for his kid.

One's 'thing'--(1) A point of personal interest; a hobby, sport, or avocation that succinctly defines a person. (2) A brief coupling of words used to evoke someone's personality in a small-talk setting: Billy's thing used to be soccer; now it's masterbation. (3) A laconic summation of one's character and interests used for the purpose of categorization and judgement. See also 'What do you do?

so if a side of ourselves is not getting expressed—say, we are all 'persona' but no 'shadow'—we unconsciously seek out compensatory opposites, often via relationships

We are who we pretend to be.

He was a man who always gave the impression of wearing a top hat, even when he was not.

Actors live in a queer sort of double world. Not many of us have the names or identities we were born with.

off, and the American Empire declines slowly, we could spend the rest of our thirties parodying our twentysomething personas and retire at age forty after pimping our nubile selves.

It's not like I set out to be 'the indie guy.'

I look at it like this: I'm being myself, everybody else in my industry is faking it.