Quotes About Identity

As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves - one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person.

I'm not a persona, and I'm not a character. I'm always the same person.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.

I think what you think of as the American people embracing - I don't think, on paper, I embody anything of that perceived persona. I think that's what people are latching on to, that I'm different.

I don't have a persona or anything like that that I'm trying to live up to.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.

It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'

It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.

Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

The hard part for me was being an Olympic gold medalist and having that persona; you don't see too many Olympic gold medalists go into acting. It's actually even more difficult. You're not taken very seriously, and you're looked at in a different light, so it was kind of hard for me to go straight from Olympics into acting.

There's still people who think me being married to a sista is an act. What, you think I'd make that up for a persona?

There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.

If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is everything that I do, I do for the Glory of Lord. Because of my Christian faith, that's who I am. I wasn't always that way, but I'm very proud that I am.

In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.

To me, what the 'Billy on the Street' persona is, is me as a 12-year-old.

When I'm in public doing the glamorous-wife-of-rock-star persona, I don't want to disappoint, but when I act, I really like to leave all that behind.

I think there's a responsibility to any character that you play that was a living persona.