For a director there are commercial rules that it is necessary to obey. In our profession, an artistic failure is nothing; a commercial failure is a sentence. The secret is to make films that please the public and also allow the director to reveal his per...
John Ford
Well, you create your own persona, don`t you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don`t think that I`m a lunatic. And if they do, then that`s OK, because it means that I`m playing the parts all right.
Ray Winstone
I`m not mainstream-looking. I`m not very skinny. I`m not ...like....beautiful. The point of mainstream movies is to cast someone that everyones` going to love. Because of my persona, I`m controversial. I don`t do anything in my real life to deserve that. ...
Christina Ricci
I think there`s been a tendency to place me in what has been characterized as the "moral center" of the film. In films like The Ice Storm (1997), The Crucible (1996) and Nixon (1995), that`s the sort of the persona that emerged.
Joan Allen
All that stuff, this public persona of me - let`s call him `the wild man` - that is not helpful. It doesn`t make me more of a box office draw. It`s the quality of my work that makes people want to go to my films.
Russell Crowe
[on Natalie Wood] The quality I remember about her was a kind of sweetness. When her persona fitted the role you couldn`t do better. She was it.
Elia Kazan
I bumped into every kind of disappointment, and was frustrated at every turn. Roles promised me were given to other players, pictures that offered me a chance were shelved, no one was particularly interested in me, and I had not developed a strength of pe...
Jean Arthur
I play characters. I don`t think I really have a persona per se. I don`t play the same guy every time. I show up, you don`t know what I`m gonna do. I like it that way. I`ve intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that`s what`s interesting.
Laurence Fishburne
I`m an actor not a movie star. I prefer it that way. I think when you watch big stars on screen; it`s really difficult to look beyond that very familiar persona. As an actor, you can play different characters and not be recognized. I know I`ve got parts t...
Toni Collette
As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it`s because I`ve played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking s...
Jeff Bridges
I have attempted to keep this constant link between the films and roles I choose to do and my own persona. That`s why it`s so difficult to choose what film to do, and the people I work with. It`s like there is no division between doing a film and your own...
Isabelle Huppert
My screen persona is a combination of Jack Buchanan, Noel Coward and Rex Harrison. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be, and, finally, I became that person. Or he became me.
Cary Grant
It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be. - from 1992
David Bowie
Today, I have signed a `platinum chip` world-class champion whose persona transcends sports and approaches folklore in the Philippines. I feel privileged that Manny has chosen me as his promoter.
Anya Martinez
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.
Alisha Marigoni
Pollock said several times that he couldn`t separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.
Ed Harris
Other kinds of movie stars, it`s a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that`s what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.
Joel Coen
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`d just come out and I was just like ... People are going to think that somehow I`m involved and I was so terrified ... of my own persona, my own profile.
Ian Roberts
I think what`s always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.
George Eads
I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I`ve never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment.
Rick Allen
I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one`s best physical features.
Vivienne Westwood
I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.
Ashley Judd
To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don`t really want to be saddled with a screen persona.
Beverly D`Angelo
