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There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet. -- Liev Schreiber
I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona. -- Phil Knight
My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know. -- Mindy McCready
Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny. -- Jo Brand
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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. -- Stephen Rodrick
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. -- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
I'm a big Leonardo DiCaprio fan. And if I could have a career like his... he's amazing. And not only his career, his public persona and how he carries himself. -- Luke Benward
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
I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor. -- Robert Smith
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. -- Mila Kunis
One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends. -- Christopher Knight
I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause. -- Nell Newman
It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes. -- Pete Wentz
I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves. -- Bob Odenkirk
There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet -- Liev Schreiber
People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities. -- Geoffrey Rush
My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know, -- Mindy McCready
They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real. -- Donald Glover
When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media. -- Michelle Williams
Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona. -- Barack Obama
It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo. -- Angela Davis
Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative. -- Christy Carlson Romano
I'm still very careless about my public persona. Not careless so to speak but I'm not one for fame. I think fame is the worst part about it. -- Asher Roth
I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
But 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. -- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality. -- Georges St-Pierre
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
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
I already have the weird experience of having a name for myself personally that's connected to someone that's in the public eye. So you have me, Zooey Deschanel, and then there's Zooey Deschanel's public persona. -- Zooey Deschanel
I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider the public persona rather than the private one. At least that was the case with that piece of writing. -- George Saunders
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
I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were. -- Thom Yorke
I don't like bad mouthing towns and just thinking that I live in such a great place. I mean, I would hate to live in a small town and have a public persona say, "That town sucks." I would really not want to hear that. -- Carlos Dengler
a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast? -- Jodi Picoult
For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion (what can you really say in 140 characters?), but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street. -- Kenneth Goldsmith
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 didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that! -- Vanilla Ice
Portraying Mozart is a scary task. Whenever I'm asked to portray actual historic figures, it comes with extra accountability. Not just to your director and playwright, but to the man himself and the beloved persona that the public forms. -- Rob McClure
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
Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more power to them. I just don't see the point. I'm just not going to be one of those people photographed in a bikini where people are like, 'OMG, look at Amy!' I mean, it might be OMG, but not for the reasons I want. -- Amy Adams

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