Top 509 Persona Quotes & Sayings

I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself.

If I'm a secure person, my online persona is going to be pretty similar to the person that I am. If I'm insecure, my online persona is probably very different from who I am in real life.

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 was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they are too lazy or stupid to pull a switch.

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

There is a blueprint that young female singers seem to follow to make it, to make some noise when they first come out. And it's a hyper-sexualized persona. And the thing is that it works. And they do make noise. But the problem is if it's not authentic to you, then you're trapped in that persona. And you have to live that persona 24/7.

I'm not interested in a persona.

You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona they choose is worse than their own.

Losing has changed my whole persona about fighting.

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

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

Different presidents are different as far as their public persona vs. their persona meeting with advisers. For example, George Bush was pretty much the same in person as when he was speaking publicly. I think Donald Trump has a stage persona and he also has a temperament when meeting with his advisers. Now, the positions are the same, but the attitude is a little bit different.

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

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

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

If you go on stage, or on TV, then there is an impetus that comes about to be a persona. A completely different character. But when you're someone like me, you don't want to have a persona. I want to be exactly who I am on stage.

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

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

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

I think people just find it remarkable that a high court justice would step out from behind the bench and have a persona that's not the traditional, stodgy, fuddy-duddy persona, but actually comes across as authentic and engaging.

I never manufactured my persona.

I ran out of any type of persona. I just had to be me.

Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet

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

When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired me to create a persona. So by the time I moved to New York, in the early '80s, I'd learned how to create a persona, and I knew what my persona would be.

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

Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

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

Our persona was not created by accident; it was created in order to camouflage the parts of ourselves we deemed the most undesirable and to overcompensate for what we believe to be our deepest flaws. What persona are you hiding behind?

When I'm not wearing makeup, when I'm not in front of the camera, I can be just Hrithik. I can sit with my watchman or with the spot boy and chat with him. I do that. Which is why I am able to differentiate between the person I am and the persona that is projected. It's not the person people are crazy about, it's the persona, it's the magic of the movies and you have to understand that.

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

One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona.

You show up at high school, there's all these kids you don't know, and you're terrified that people will have some kind of wrong or unpleasant impression of you. You just don't want anything to ruin your public persona, because you actually have a public persona in high school.

There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.

I'm persona non grata at the New Yorker.

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

I'm sort of a hippie pacifist in terms of general persona.

I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.

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

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

I got a different persona than a lot of these other guys.

There is your persona and then there's the real you. I was living inside my persona too much.

I believe that Maryse's persona was the best female persona in years within the WWE.

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

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.

Persona-wise, I represent a lot of people's childhoods.

Fantastic Negrito is a persona, an incarnation in my third phase.

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.

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

There is the real person I am, and there is the stage persona.

When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. You're developing yourself as a persona, as a public persona. It's going to be partly exposed through the writing itself and partly created by all the paraphernalia that attaches itself to writing. But you aren't simply an invisible being or your own private being at work. You're kind of a public figure, as well.

I think the Mary J. Blige persona wouldn't lend itself to the big kid persona, but that's exactly who she is. She has such a serious life and childhood and then such a dramatic one, a successful R&B singer. But she's just stayed this kid for life and stuff.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

I had a persona as a player, and I know this will come as a shock, but I liked to talk. But don't let the persona overshadow the person. The persona liked to have fun. The person knew when it was time to get to work.

A lot of people mistake the persona that I create in poetry and fiction with me. A lot of people claim to know me who don't really know me. They know the work, or they know the persona in the work, and they confuse that with me, the writer. They don't realize that the persona is also a creation and a fabrication, a composite of my friends and myself all pasted together.

There's no difference between my persona on Twitter and Instagram and in real life.

I shaved a lot off of a lot that I saw in that I like to be less is more and make everything count and not give anyone anything extra. I was what you see is what you got. It was organic. I came up with the persona. The persona is me, coupled together with a lot of my interests.

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