Quotes About Identity

As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.

Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.

If a comic is himself, there'll be things he can't do - because he has to adhere to that persona.

I think it would be really brutal to put on a persona and get famous for that persona. Like, 'I'm number one, I'm the best!' because that sounds like a lot of pressure.

I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn't say it's how I am naturally, but it's how I am naturally when I'm on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.

Every single part of our persona, no matter how long we've rocked it, is a choice we make every day.

My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.

I'm really embracing that very out, very loud, very free persona that I am now but that I didn't get to be in high school.

When I first started, I had a mullet, and I was trying to play a hillbilly persona. While it was fun, it wasn't me.

The street-wear and the very androgynous tomboyish girl, that's just not this new persona I'm introducing... it's me 24/7.

To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?

I never manufactured my persona.

aujourd'hui encore, l'allemand, l'alsacien et le français se disputent dans ma tête et brouillent mon élocution ; aujourd'hui encore, je me déplace avec un dictionnaire allemand-français dans mes affaires.

If everyone is my brother, I have no brothers.

I ask to live a worker; otherwise I will die a warrior.

Be what you are; it is better that way. --Dolph

Why did things have to be so complicated with human beings?...Yet if we were not what we were, creatures with at least the awareness of purpose and honor, what would we be? Empty knights in armor, seeming so strong on the outside, yet hollow inside?

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner ... and that is the Afrikaner himself.

Learn what you are and be such.