Persona Quotes

He hasn't really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he's starting to, a little. — Colleen Chen

Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested. — J. Michael Straczynski

Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space. — Elizabeth Alexander

Who would you impress if the world was blind? — Shannon L. Alder

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself. — Dana Carvey

Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona. — T.F. Hodge

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

Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something. — James Tate

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man. — Alice Walker

What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona. — Marc Anthony

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind. — Raquel Welch

Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace. — Ingmar Bergman

I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally. — Billy Sheehan

I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age. — Billy Collins

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

We were a lot alike. I hid behind a false persona, and he blocked his out. — Nashoda Rose

You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana. — Harvey Korman

His persona seemed very odd to me: it was as though he'd once seen an intellectual, and had spent the rest of his life impersonating him. — John Cleese

Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona. — Charlie Day

My professional persona never loosens its grip, keeping an eye on me at all times. — Agnetha Faltskog

I create this persona for the show. And that's what it is. I'm an act. — Jerry Springer

Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny. — Jo Brand

One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis. — Stephen Rodrick

It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting. — Val Kilmer

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

In order to look special wearing the chancy unique; it must be worn with your persona, and if the two don't blend, then the look becomes pear-shaped. — David Bowie

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is. — C. G. Jung

The Internet is the quarry from which younger generations craft their own selves and then advertise a desired persona on Facebook. — Michael S. Horton

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know. — Mindy McCready

They said you were mentally healthy, but your madness is the worst — Ingmar Bergman

An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career. — Bentley Little

And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are! — C. JoyBell C.

People always switched on turn me off. — Brian Spellman

To hide behind a computer and an anonymous persona to spew hate at another person is despicable. — Heather Dubrow

I had a new persona, not of my choosing. I was Average Dumb Woman Married to Average Shitty Man. He had single-handedly de-amazed Amazing Amy. — Gillian Flynn

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

My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny. — Richard Simmons

When your LinkedIn Profile doesn't sync with your Facebook persona, you are on a verge of sinking your brand — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona. — Letitia Baldrige

Be sure that whatever you are is you. — Theodore Roethke

Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

If you change a woman's look, you change her persona. — Alber Elbaz

The outfit, tight in places,
and loose in some, says as much
in the buttons as it does in cuffs. — Kristen Henderson

He built his persona as a shield around his person, because he knew very well how little his person could withstand. — Eleanor Catton

Oh, I'm sure he's much more intelligent and thoughtful in person. This is just his "lazy phone persona. — Aziz Ansari

I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves. — Bob Odenkirk

You think you must fit the role others have laid out for you. That is the lie you need to conquer. — Elizabeth Carlton

To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona. — Beverly D'Angelo

Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies. — John Oates

Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met. — Iman

An off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction. — Angelina Jolie

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

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. — Billy Corgan

A weapon is only an extension of one's own persona; as lethal or useless as the person wielding it. — Anurag Shourie

I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know? — Andrea Corr

How did you become this way?"
"Why is anybody the way they are? That's kind of hard to answer. — E.L. James

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

How many yous have you been?
How many,
Lined up inside,
Each killing the last? — Kate Tempest

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time. — Miranda Richardson

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is. - Hannah More — Karen Swallow Prior

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star. — Jason Alexander

My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are. — Billy Collins

To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting. — Janeane Garofalo

In my career, which has been fairly two-dimensional, people make decisions based on your persona. — Erin O'Connor

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I am grateful that I got kicked in the ass. That I had a taste of reality before I traveled too far and that persona became permanent. — Alessandra Torre

This narrowed self-image we will be calling the persona, — Ken Wilber

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

Let's just say I haven't been keeping up the Gary Barlow persona; I've let loose. — Liam Payne

My whole persona is vodka bottles and marijuana The hope in Nana was rockin', inspired from my Mama — Vinnie Paz

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years! — Drew Goddard

Psychosis is person less persona, raving sincerity. — Brian Spellman

I was consumed by a selfishness and arrogance that I didn't dare let go of until I found a new persona to hide behind. — Dorothy Koomson

The effectiveness of your persona is inversely proportional to what people know about you. — Brenna Yovanoff

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write. — Jim Gaffigan

I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do. — Lana Del Rey

Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either. — Marilyn Manson

But I knew very well how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was inside. I — Jojo Moyes

You hide behind the professional persona all day; then you leave the office and hide behind the drink. — Caroline Knapp

They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real. — Donald Glover

Experience is the treasure of any persona. — Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

I'm not interested in a persona. — Chris Robinson

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that. — Jim Gaffigan

The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably. — Gita Mehta

I am now a faded image of my former being,
I let that persona go.
I like myself for who I am and I choose to be, me. — Tina J. Richardson

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are. — Wanda Sykes

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to. — Orson Scott Card

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet. — Liev Schreiber

She knows from experience that tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable, and she wears her Goth persona like armor. — Christina Baker Kline

I'll just ask now: What is it about my persona that draws every insane, power-hungry nutcase to me like a magnet? — James Patterson

When I said clean, I meant he [Barack Obama] was bright. Like when [Donald] Trump said about Carly [Fiorina], "face" he meant "persona." — Joe Biden

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that. — David Guterson

Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know a lot. — Jonathan Gold

I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. — Rick James

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona. — Meghan O'Rourke

I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. — Queen Rania Of Jordan

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona. — Phil Knight

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? — Gary Owen