Persona Quotes - Page 3

• I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.

  Randall Robinson

  Real, Careers, People

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• 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

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Issues

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• If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody is to be their own greatest fan. Weaker personas and personalities define that as egotistical or arrogant, but what it means is their self-esteem isn't that strong.

  Gene Simmons

  Strong, Self Esteem, Mean

  Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2009.

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• When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

  Elton John

  People, Important, Dangerous

  "Elton John Thinks Miley Cyrus Is Like A Candle In The Wind". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2013.

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• I can understand how people would despise my image and my father's persona. My father's image amongst the poorest of people, those forgotten by the state, still remains a respected image. Whether we like it or not, my father was an important figure who filled a vacuum left by the state amongst the lower social classes.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Class, People

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• We must present a national persona of being irrational and vindictive, because that's going to terrify people. And then, they'll back off. And this is not [Donald] Trump, this is [Bill] Clinton. It's not [Richard] Nixon, you know. We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Bills, Clinton

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Executive presence has to do with the whole of the person. It's much more than presentation skill, charisma or savvy. It shows up in three dimensions of the leader's persona - character, substance and style. It's now clear that for a leader to influence and make an impact, it is important for them to also develop qualities such as authenticity, integrity, resonance, practical wisdom, and vision.

  Suzanne Bates

  Integrity, Character, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• As you evolve, you lean 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.

  Matt Hardy

  Love You, Wrestling, Risk

  Source: www.si.com

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• We're interested by public personas and private personas, otherwise we wouldn't put on with actors rambling on with the same kind of stuff, over and over again, saying variations of the same thing. I'm always amazed by how fascinated people still are by actors because it's the same version of events that actors describe, all the time.

  Toby Jones

  People, Events, Rambling

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• When you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Book, Character, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• When I'm not wearing makeup, when I'm not in front of the camera, I can be just Hrithik. I can sit with my watchman or with the spot boy and chat with him. I do that. Which is why I am able to differentiate between the person I am and the persona that is projected. It's not the person people are crazy about, it's the persona, it's the magic of the movies and you have to understand that.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Crazy, Boys, Makeup

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• Different presidents are different as far as their public persona vs. their persona meeting with advisers. For example, George Bush was pretty much the same in person as when he was speaking publicly. I think Donald Trump has a stage persona and he also has a temperament when meeting with his advisers. Now, the positions are the same, but the attitude is a little bit different.

  Kris Kobach

  Attitude, Thinking, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Class, Ivy

  "DRUDGE MATCH: Camille Paglia Gets Intimate With The Shady Wizard Of The Web". Interview with Matt Drudge, freerepublic.com. November 6, 2003.

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• 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

  Ideas, Entity, Objects

  "The grunge girl grows up" by Priya Elan, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2008.

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• My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People, Guy, Laziness

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• I would say digital technology probably doesn't have much impact on us so far. We've seen photographs of people from when they are alive. We see home movies. We have videotapes now and e-mails. When it's going to get interesting is in massively multiplayer online games where you have avatars (online personas). You could actually create an avatar that's semi-autonomous. It could do things for you while you get off the game to run the rest of your life.

  Paul Saffo

  Running, Home, Technology

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I don't want to work with anyone who has not sat down with me and has gotten to know me. I don't want you writing for who you think Jennifer is or the public persona of because that's not who I am. It's my shell, it's the brand, it's the celebrity, but it's not the person.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Writing, Thinking, Who I Am

  Source: thesource.com

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• There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private.
  The fact that Italy chose to incarnate him as a model of beauty stupefied him.

  Giovanna Cau

  Facts, Contradiction, Models

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't have to be that gentleman ["baddest man on the planet"] anymore. Now I have to be "this" guy. And in order to be "this" guy, I have to be smiling, I have to be gregarious, I have to be entertaining, and I have to be friendly. This is what my career needs now. I've adapted. But 20 years from now, I may need a different persona.

  Mike Tyson

  Men, Order, Years

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• I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Thinking

  "Bob Odenkirk on Better Call Saul's "Mr. Spock chess" and a Mr. Show reunion that isn't a Mr. Show reunion". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 5, 2015.

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• What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician - the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency in the United States. No one knew who he was, he came out of nowhere, he had this incredible persona that floated him above the fray, destroyed Hillary, took over the Democratic Party and became president. This is truly unprecedented: A young unknown with no history, no paper trail, no well-known associates, self-created.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Party, Unique, Self

  "'Obama Is Average'". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and starving for the good parent, so it's like I'm bringing my own persona issues into that. I am the parent that I always wanted to have; that's how I look at my role.

  Bob Harper

  Issues, Parent, Needs

  Source: movieweb.com

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• an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mother, Embodiment, Kali

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• Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very formative moment in my adolescence and impressed me forever with the persona of the prostitute, whom I continue to revere. The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Men, Yale

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• Most public persons do not market themselves as cheating lowlives - certainly not politicians (okay, maybe a few rock stars.) But most people try to present a somewhat appealing persona, which is why sex is still a hot topic.

  Roxanne Roberts

  Cheating, Sex, Stars

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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