Persona Quotes - Page 11

• I see parody as another form of comedy. If you are making a comedy, there are a lot of different ways to do it. I'm not necessarily always aware of my quote-unquote persona when doing things like that. It's more, "What does the character need at the time?" I'm certainly drawn to certain types of material, there's no doubt about that.

  Bruce Campbell

  Character, Doubt, Way

  Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. February 11, 2009.

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• My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Character, Thinking, People

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• The Beatles meant everything to me growing up, and John was part of that. I loved Lennon's persona. He knew who he was and he knew what he represented to a worldwide public... I think he incited and inspired a whole group of youth to speak out and say what they felt.

  John Travolta

  Growing Up, Thinking, Speaks Out

  "It was 20 years ago today". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.

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• 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

  Might, Phantoms, Return

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• I think I began getting really influenced by that whole punk scene around the age of 13 or 14-I went through that whole thing like the shaved head. I was always interested in what people called "the darker side," whatever that was, and the kind of look that you would see in the old horror films. So I let that become more of my persona.

  Rozz Williams

  Thinking, People, Age

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• A great deal of it is personal. But the persona is, I guess, the out of body experience that takes place. Because I'm not conscious of what the outcome is going to be, I'm only conscious of my intentions, do you know what I'm saying? And even my intentions were simple initially.

  Cee Lo Green

  Simple, Body, Outcomes

  "Gnarls Barkley". Interview with Sean Fennessey, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2006.

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• I tend to prefer the band thing. I think playing solo is good for about 45 minutes. I remember when I was on my solo tour that I got a chance to play with Martin Stephenson of the Daintees. He's now refashioned himself as almost a delta blues guitar player and he's got all the technique, all the persona and the charisma on stage. I think I do too, but I'm more of a first position strummer guy with a little bit of filigree work. I could listen to him for hours; I could listen to myself playing solo for about half an hour!

  Bill Mallonee

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Eye, All Time

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

  Donald Glover

  Real, Giving, Ems

  Song: Fuck It All, Album: Culdesac, 2010

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• 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

  Stars, Looks, Television

  "THE CRAFTSMAN - For JASON ALEXANDER, life after Seinfeld is a lot like before: It's about the work". Interview with Rob Kendt, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2001.

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• The most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he made for very relaxing company, quick to be amused at the world and his own peccadilloes. He enjoyed the seedy squalor of his rooms in a posh house in the most desirable part of Holland Park, and living up to his persona as an oddball bohemian.

  Charles Saatchi

  Memories, Eye, House

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “Babble”, p.152

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• I'm not interested in a persona.

  Chris Robinson

  Not Interested

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  RuPaul

  Fashion, New York, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando.

  Woody Allen

  Hero, Comedian, Way

  "Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The : Interview With Woody Allen". Cinema.com Interview, cinema.com.

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• I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

  Raquel Welch

  Mind, Bigger Than Life, My Own

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• But 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.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Self Worth, Shields, Slave

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Billy Sheehan

  Believe, I Believe

  USA Today online chat, www.billysheehan.com. August 21, 2001.

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• 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

  Song, Taken, Writing

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• 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.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mistake, People, Together

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• When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.

  Kevin Costner

  Unique, People, Giving

  "Kevin Costner Talks HATFIELDS & McCOYS, Dramatic License in a Historical Tale, and Future Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 16, 2012.

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• In underground music, there seems to be this real inability for people to express themselves in any kind of heroic or mythological way. There's this idea that we're all normal joes, and that creating a persona onstage or having schtick is somehow false and misleading and evil.

  Ian Svenonius

  Real, Ideas, Creating

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• I actually envy actors who have a persona: 'This is the way I am. This is the part I play.' And do it over and over and over. To me, that's a lot easier than trying to reinvent yourself every six months.

  John C. Reilly

  Play, Envy, Trying

  "The Outsiders: John C. Reilly On Terri". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2011.

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• My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It's more like a character that's sculpted for whatever joke needs communicating at the moment.

  Bo Burnham

  Meaningful, Character, Way

  Source: mancunion.com

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• My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.

  Bo Burnham

  Ideas, Faces, Littles

  Source: www.craveonline.com

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• For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into that story. It seems insanely narcissistic. But I also think there's a particular effect that comes from using my autobiography in service to another story, as opposed to being the subject. I'm much more comfortable working in that mode. And I do think I have a persona or mood that I keep coming back to: self-conscious, self-critical, unsure. I write a lot about bodies, particularly male ones, usually as a point of emphasis for my insecurities about my own.

  Lucas Mann

  Writing, Thinking, Insecurity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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