Persona Quotes

• Often writers cast their words out prophetically, as a sorceress might cast a spell, and many times when the words return to you, enclosed between covers, your phantom is so fully fleshed out in its own persona, you don't recognize your own creation.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Creation
  • Might
  • Casts

• Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Women
  • Perfect
  • Persona

• Drag is about whatever persona you put on to do a particular task. I could pick up trash in the morning and throw on my navy blue jumpsuit, and that would be that gig!

  

  Aquaria
  • Task
  • Drag
  • Persona

• I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators.

  

  Henry Selick
  • Enough
  • Persona
  • Animator

• When you sing, you put on a persona. I hide behind that person on stage. You can feel like death, but you have to put it on. The audience wants to see someone smiley.

  

  Susan Boyle
  • Stage
  • Sing
  • Persona

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

  

  Rachel Hollis
  • Matter
  • Choice
  • Persona

• Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

  

  Rich Lowry
  • Different
  • Presidential
  • Persona

• 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
  • Star
  • Persona

• You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

  

  Will Self
  • Personality
  • Talent
  • Faces

• Every single day I'm alive or you're alive, we're choosing this life and this persona. We choose to be the stay-at-home mom who loves baking and Pilates. We choose to be a hipster who loves coffee shops and artisan goods. We choose to be a lawyer who runs marathons and only eats organic.

  

  Rachel Hollis
  • Coffee
  • Choosing
  • Organic

• If guys step back and are just honest about what they think looks good on them, it’s really hard to lose. You can spot guys who take on personas that are not theirs.

  

  Michael Bastian
  • Thinking
  • Honest
  • Loses

• Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Creating
  • Evolve
  • Contradicting

• When I search myself carefully I do think it's from my mother. I even feel strange saying that. Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things. But certainly influences early on that I felt from my mother. I wouldn't say she was "political" per se; she was sensitive to other people.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • People
  • Questions
  • Persona

• 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.

  

  Frankie Grande
  • School
  • Free
  • Persona

• People don't necessarily want to step away from what they think they know of you. Getting to know this whole other persona and all of the things that come along with that, it can be confusing for people.

  

  Demetria McKinney
  • Know
  • Confusing
  • Necessarily

• Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • People
  • Questions
  • Persona

• [David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look.

  

  David Bowie
  • Different
  • Genius
  • Persona

• What we are is serious. And you see us in action, so it's not in personas. It's in actions and it's what we do. And that's why Russia was left on an island when it came to Syria. Everyone else isolated them with their connection with Bashar Assad and Iran.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Action
  • Serious
  • Persona

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

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Ideas
  • Concerned
  • Persona

• 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
  • Fashion
  • Unique
  • Special

• I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Change
  • Actor
  • Persona

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