Quotes about Persona
There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.
— Brennan Manning
There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.
— Madeleine Albright
She liked to keep only the bright side of herself turned towards him. She liked to shine.
— Margaret Atwood
Is that all we are? he thinks. Unmistakable clothing, a hairstyle, a few exaggerated features, a gesture? —
— Margaret Atwood
Anyone can put on a charming exterior when they want to.
— Anne Frank
When we are stuck in our convictions and personas, we enter into the disease of having good ideas and being right.
— Anne Lamott
I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Every nerve and muscle in Rosamond was adjusted to the consciousness that she was being looked at. She was by nature an actress of parts that entered into her physique: she even acted her own character, and so well, that she did not know it to be precisely her own.)
— George Eliot
The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see.
— Robert Brault
All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.
— Robert Brault
Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.
— Ernest Hemingway