Quotes About Persona

I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.

The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

The Replacements, it seemed, secretly believed in themselves and yet adopted a loser persona to insulate themselves against failure.

They call him Stormy Monday, but he's kind of a dick every single day.

Is somebody in there now?" "Yeah, a guy. Stormy Monday took it." "That's the name he uses?" "Yeah. People 'round here use a lot of different names, you know? They've left their other names behind." "Got it. Let's go talk to Stormy. I've got to look inside." "He's not a happy guy when you wake him up. They call him Stormy Monday but he's kind of a dick every single day.

Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.

He's not tactically rude," his wife explains. "He's sincerely rude. He knows everyone thinks of him as a character but he doesn't think of himself that way. Steven lives inside his head." When

The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.

Sinatra is so connected with the persona of the 'Guys and Dolls' characters even though he had great conflicts with Frank Loesser personally.

Naan' performed admirably, and the people have since associated me with that character. I am in no hurry to change that image.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva.

Even though I'm still doing the singing entrances, with promos and backstages, I was being me as a performer.

Only in acting I'm going by Joanna JoJo Levesque. In singing, just JoJo. But the reason we wanted to go with JoJo Levesque is most people know me as JoJo. People that are familiar with me would still be like, 'Oh, that's JoJo.'

I think Bad News Barrett was just having a laugh every single night.

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.

It's nice to have a few names. I use a few names myself. I use a few different surnames. I call myself James sometimes. I actually use my mother's name as a professional name. But if someone calls me Mr. Murphy or Mr. Gillen, I don't like that. I don't like being called 'mister,' and I don't like being called 'sir.'

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

Who names themselves 'The Situation?' I do not take myself seriously like that - not in the least bit - that would be so pretentious.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.