Top 165 Persona Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Persona Quotes from famous people such as Jarvis Cocker, Ed Harris, BeBe Zahara Benet, Bruce Davison, Snoop Dogg, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for

Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.
Jarvis Cocker
Pollock said several times that he couldn’t separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona – his struggles as a human being – that was interesting to me.
Ed Harris
Jungle Kitty is one of the colors of my persona that allows me to be free, allows to be untamed, allows me to have fun and let loose and be ferocious, raw, unapologetic, and carefree.
BeBe Zahara Benet
Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That’s one of the reasons I guess I became an actor – because you get to create a persona that’s bigger or better or more interesting than your own.
Bruce Davison
To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential… With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.
Snoop Dogg
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.
David Frost
I think there’s a responsibility to any character that you play that was a living persona.
Genevieve O’Reilly
While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
Dana Carvey
I was always into fantasy characters, stories of magic, but after Red Sonja, I became obsessed with the persona, the image, of the warrior woman – the sword-wielding, defiant, fearless woman.
Marjorie Liu
I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.
Ashley Judd
I’d never put much thought into writing an autobiography before, because while I have this public persona of being extremely confident, I also am extremely filled with self-doubt, worry and insecurity. This book came about because I was trying to sell another book, unsuccessfully, about health and wellness.
Perez Hilton
I can’t perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it’ll distract from the whole persona.
MF Doom
For me, being a public persona, I was always wondering, ‘Was a man dating me for who I was? Was there an agenda? Did he want to be seen with me? Am I arm candy?’
Gina Neely
We live in an era of reinvention: Madonna and everybody desperately trying to change their persona.
James Lapine
Bobby Heenan did what every announcer should strive to do and that is to make talent bigger stars than they are and to embellish every talent’s TV persona.
Jim Ross
There’s still people who think me being married to a sista is an act. What, you think I’d make that up for a persona?
Gary Owen
I cannot come and suddenly put on a persona. Like, I cannot be Mike Tyson. When you saw him it was raw, it was intense, ‘I want to hurt you.’ But now everybody tries it. I don’t enjoy that. It’s not real.
Gegard Mousasi
Acting tough is all about developing an attitude and a persona that says, ‘Look at how great I am.’ But often, that tough exterior is meant to hide self-doubt. Mentally strong people invest more energy into working on their weaknesses rather than trying to cover them up.
Amy Morin
Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.
Rodrigo Santoro
Most of the people I interact with on a daily basis don’t even know what I do for a living, so the ‘persona’ thing doesn’t amount to much.
Mark Kozelek
I’ve established this kind of wild persona and these redneck party songs and a live show that’s kind of rowdy, but I don’t want people to think that’s what I’m all about.
Morgan Wallen
I’m happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.
Billy Collins
Probably every band – you get back to like, The Stones are kind of the tough guys, Beatles are kind of psychedelic, Led Zeppelin was kinda mystical, The Who are kind of mods. You know, you just go right through. Everyone’s kind of adopted their so-called persona or flavor if you will.
Kyle Gass
Having a persona people recognize, it’s the thing that probably gets you paid the most – but it’s also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn’t want. ‘Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.
Robert Pattinson
What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they’re in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
Billy Corgan
I think that if you know people who are performers on stage and actresses or whatever it may be, the bottom line is what you do on stage. You just take on a different persona – that’s what makes her so successful. Lights come on, and suddenly, it’s Britney Spears, and the lights go off, and she’s just Britney.
Su-chin Pak
I’m just a Harlem dude that can rap, and people dig my style and persona.
Cam’ron
If you change a woman’s look, you change her persona.
Alber Elbaz
My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.
Lauren Mayberry
I’ve always been aware that probably writing songs – stupid songs or, at least, theatrical songs – is, I dunno, I certainly don’t think about that, about my persona on stage. In fact, I work really hard not to address it too much in my head.
Tim Minchin
The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O’Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
Campbell Brown
If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as i

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.
Robert Greene
There’s the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.
Liev Schreiber
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 of what you think that somebody should be when they’re involved in public office, it’s just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.
Ben Quayle
That’s how a lot of Tame Impala songs start out – as ideas for songs I could potentially give to someone else. I think of them with a different persona in mind; it’s just a subconscious way of not being bound by what you think you are as an artist.
Kevin Parker
A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
Rabih Alameddine
I don’t know how many girls have felt support through my persona. I’m a girl power. So many girls tell me I’m a girl power, and yes, I am.
Qandeel Baloch
Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica of the real guy; it was the real guy.
Tom Shales
Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.
Billy Collins
Bowie is just a persona. He’s a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
Iman
When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
Chuck Norris
A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.
Juliana Hatfield
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.
Jesse Andrews
When people think about me, that’s all they think: ‘He’s crazy. He’s psycho. He’s this.’ No, that was just my blog; that was Agent Zero; that was my persona that I was putting out there. And eventually, that all caught up with me.
Gilbert Arenas
To me, what the ‘Billy on the Street’ persona is, is me as a 12-year-old.
Billy Eichner
Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn’t want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.
bell hooks
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.
Cameron Britton
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
There is your persona and then there’s the real you. I was living inside my persona too much.
Phil Hellmuth
My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.
Billy Collins
Being an actor, and a villain for various movies, I’ve played all parts of Ravana’s persona already. But as familiar as all these parts of it may seem, playing Ravana is a different ball game altogether.
Mukesh Rishi