But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don't feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
We must present a national persona of being irrational and vindictive, because that's going to terrify people. And then, they'll back off.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
In underground music, there seems to be this real inability for people to express themselves in any kind of heroic or mythological… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
“Realize that the tests you endure will mold your character, persona, and will. The more heartbreak and pain you will feel with… — J. Junior Reynolds II Copy Share Image
He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
We're interested by public personas and private personas, otherwise we wouldn't put on with actors rambling on with the same kind of… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
By sixteen I thought, "Ah, this is all crap, you're all sheep, I'm not going to church, leave me alone." And then… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, the word 'person' did not originally refer to the individual in the way we tend to use it today. Instead, 'person'… — Nick Haslam Copy Share Image
Abandoning who people think you are and becoming who you really are is a simple concept, but sometimes it is very hard… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona… — Ben Quayle Copy Share Image
Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you… — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
There's confusional arousals, there are states in deeper sleep that can happen where people will go and they'll disappear and they'll take… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move… — Kyra Sedgwick Copy Share Image
I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be… — Robyn Copy Share Image
I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and kind of in my… — Nick Swardson Copy Share Image
Since I’ve known you, you’ve been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I think my ultimate fashion icon would have to be Gwen Stefani. I love her persona; I love what she embodies and… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess… — Bruce Davison Copy Share Image
“En el amor no está escrito yo voy amar a tal persona y no a la otra. Muchas veces en la vida… — David Elías Cotos Espinoza Copy Share Image
Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular,… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it's nice to give these invented,… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you've achieved in your life or what gifts you've given to the rest… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal Persona is unbombable? Trust me son, I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the… — Rakim Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
I'm a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing... I'm not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well,… — Joyce DiDonato Copy Share Image
I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
If I'm meeting somebody for the first time, I don't look them up on Wikipedia, or I try not to, because I… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves -… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image