Persona Quotes - Page 4

• I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of life is as natural to me as staying in one place is for other people. I do variations on the theme. I return to places where I used to be. I find my old personas. I try them on. If they still fit, I wear them out to a party or a show. If they begin to restrict my movements, I take them off. I am a human being, capable of mimicking anything I see or remember or can imagine.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Moving, Party, School

  Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Careers, Mystery, Shut Up

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• 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.

  Gillian Flynn

  Fashion, Stupid, Thinking

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.222, Crown

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• I don't like bad mouthing towns and just thinking that I live in such a great place. I mean, I would hate to live in a small town and have a public persona say, "That town sucks." I would really not want to hear that.

  Carlos Dengler

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

  "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.

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• 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, Guy, Looks

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• I prefer to channel my problems and inner demons through a character. Another persona. That protects me and my family. I can get my frustrations out that way.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Character, Frustration, Inner Demons

  Source: movieweb.com

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• So why you pushin' it? Why you lyin' for? I know where you live,
  I know your folks, you was a sucka as a kid.
  Your persona's drama that you acquired in high school in actin' class,
  Your whole aura is plexiglass.
  What's-her-face told me you shot this kid last week in the park;
  That's a lie, you was in church with your moms.

  O.C.

  Mom, Drama, Lying

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

  David Guterson

  Fighting, Used, Relaxed

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• I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

  Vanilla Ice

  Stars, Rocks, People

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• A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.

  Alan Cooper

  Powerful, Simple, Thinking

  Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin (2012). “About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design”, p.121, John Wiley & Sons

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• The world is futile when viewed through the persona of the body. The body is not simply the physical body but it's the body of knowledge of this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, World, Body

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

  Karen O

  Gears, Steps, Kind

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

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

  Matthew Perry

  Stars, Successful, Tough

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• 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, Done, Want

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of himself". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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• To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Smart, People, Littles

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

  Billy Eichner

  Character, Thinking, Rocks

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• In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I am on my seventeen-year-old acid trip, when I saw my personas fall one minute after another, as if I was dying every moment.

  Francesco Clemente

  Buddhist, Wall, Fall

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• 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.

  Kim Stolz

  Real, Insecure, Who I Am

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Kristin Hahn, www.elle.com. August 4, 2009.

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• I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, Different, Actors

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I don't worry about my epitaph' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Susan Compo, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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• It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Jobs, Emotional, Judging

  "CNN Newsroom" with Fredricka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2009.

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• 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

  People, Shy, Quiet

  "10 Questions: J. Michael Straczynski". Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. November 7, 2001.

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• 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 that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Fall, Thinking

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• The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Sight, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and do exactly what I wanted to do. That way I would never have to change for anybody.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Careers, Complaining, Needs

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

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