When your persona begins
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
Persona
I have been moving
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. … Read more
Many in Hollywood viewed
Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, \”She’s as wistful as an iron factory.\” Elizabeth Taylor
Theres this little box
Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the … Read more
The world is futile
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
I love the way
I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives. Francois Truffaut
In my head I
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
I think I should
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
I’m a person who
I’m a person who really likes to understand motives – the inner motives and the inner personalities of persons. Why do people do some things? How do they deal with themselves while doing them? Definitely one of the most interesting parts of doing interviews and creating the movie was going into those persona issues in … Read more
We’ve always been a
We’ve always been a band who’s taken forever to do things. After writing ‘Persona’ I think we wrote about four songs in three years! Drew Goddard