He was very sweet, but just his persona was intimidating. He was Gregg Allman. I think a lot of people had that feeling when they met him.
My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.
What you see is what you get. My God, I don’t have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.
In rugby I think it is good to have a bit of a persona, a bit of a character because we are one of the last things that isn’t necessarily controlled.
In my movies, I portray this ‘Everyman’ persona, someone everybody can empathize with. People can identify with a guy like me.
I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn’t say it’s how I am naturally, but it’s how I am naturally when I’m on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.
When I ran away from the ‘Octomom’ persona, I went right back into my healthy lifestyle.
There was a lot of work that people don’t know about that I did to establish my villain persona. There were a lot of miles on the road that went into it, thousands upon thousands of hours of writing on yellow pads while driving in my car with the dome light on.
An actor’s off-screen persona should never overshadow his on-screen characters.
It’s very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don’t recognise myself.
There’s this large trend – I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 – which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.
James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn’t have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman.
I’m developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It’s me as myself in a sense and kind of in my voice, no accent no affectation. I’m growing into my own persona.
‘Mayabazar’ was the film I immensely loved as a kid. Only when I became a filmmaker about 20 years later did I realise its technical marvel and what a great epic it was. I and my visual effects supervisor, while making ‘Yamadonga,’ took two days to understand the magnification shot of Ghatothkatcha’s persona.
I am not too much into political awareness, but I had known a lot about Indira Gandhi’s strong persona. Obviously, she had a powerful personality and a lot of clarity and wisdom to rule India for so long.
Emily Dickinson has haunted my life – her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I’ve had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.
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.
I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don’t feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain part or persona. I’m not going to cut something out of my life because it’s not ‘my image.’ I want to be open enough that if I love something, I can do it, and it will add to myself as an entertainer.
‘Billy on the Street’ is a persona. It’s crafted; it has writers. It’s a mixture of performance art and comedy.
It takes a long time to free oneself from chatter – goals, social media, image, persona. And if you’re able to move through in that way, you can actually start trying to create from a different place.
Every single part of our persona, no matter how long we’ve rocked it, is a choice we make every day.
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.
If you’re real, you’ve never got anything to hide away from. You’re not trying to fake anything, you’re not trying to have this other persona – you’re just yourself. And if I could be myself for as long as possible, I will.
The hair is part of my image, part of my persona. And the hair is no accident: I have to gel it vertical every single morning.
People around me tell me that I need a bigger persona and to act a little more A-listy because ‘that’s where you are but you don’t act that way, so people undervalue you.’ But that’s not me.
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.
I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.
I don’t have a persona or anything like that that I’m trying to live up to.
There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don’t say what I want them to say. And that’s true of the persona in the poem who’s lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it’s also true of me as me.
Sometimes people think I’m sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, ‘How can I disarm people? I know: I’ll create a persona; I’ll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I’ll say, ‘How are you doing?’ And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.’
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.
I think people got this idea that I wanted to be a star. Managers of the past don’t have any kind of public persona – it’s all about the fame of the artist. I really don’t want to be a star. I just want to have a platform.
You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.
I’m not a persona, and I’m not a character. I’m always the same person.
There are very few actors who elevate a scene through their persona. Like for example, Rajinikanth does it with his style. He doesn’t need anything else.
I didn’t have a particular persona. I’m not Alice Cooper, you know?
I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.
There’s this weird thing that happens when you contribute something to a static profile. You have to worry about how this new content fits in with your online persona that’s supposed to be you. It’s uncomfortable and unfortunate.
You don’t even know if the person you’re communicating with online is actually that person. And your persona on your social media – your Facebook or Twitter – may not be the person you are in real life. So then, who is the real person? Is it somewhere in between?
In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn’t have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.
One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation – see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.
I wasn’t worried about flash or persona… It’s all about writing a good, solid song.
I don’t think there is anyone I’ve ever met who has been more passionate about music than me, but rock ‘n’ roll has never been about just music. It is music, attitude, personality, persona, myth, legend.
It’s not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
People see the ‘Lil’ Wayne’ persona and think they know who he really is. My son’s father is an intelligent, loving and lovable person who will always be a dear friend. That is all.
I never manufactured my persona.
I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I’m concerned, I’m changing all the time.
I don’t think about being a public persona too much – I just get on with what I’m doing.
My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.
The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye’s stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That’s reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That’s reminiscent of the Beatles.
I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.
With independent music sometimes you are able to bring yourself out and your persona out, ‘Tanhaai’ was that song for me.
As you evolve, you learn that wrestling is not necessarily about stunts or spots. You need to go out and show the audience that they can love you for the persona you are – not because of the risk you’re willing to take or the jeopardy you’re willing to put your body in.
I think some superstars feel they get trapped in their established screen persona over and over again. That’s what they get hired to do.
People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it’s important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?
