Private Persona Quotes

I'm not always smiling when I'm on the golf course. Sometimes, hey, listen, people have regular jobs. You go to them when they're working, and you catch them not in the best moment either. So I understand how people could perceive me. But come get to know me, and I'm totally a different person.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.

The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.

Outside of show business, I live a normal life.

If I wasn't going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I'm much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

I always look at actresses who I most respect, and they make me think that you can make a choice in life. It's whether or not you choose to go down the route of publicising your personal life. I choose not to.

There are two different Donald Trump's. There's the one you see on the stage and there is the one who is very cerebral. He sits there and considers things very carefully. You can have a very good conversation with him. And that's the Donald Trump that you'll going to start seeing more and more of.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.

No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limits you in some way but I like to be able to pull my hair back in a ponytail and get groceries without anyone noticing.

I'm more of a homebody type. I don't want to look like I want to be in the public eye. I didn't become an actress to be famous.

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.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.

I don't like to be always in the press, or on television or always be on seen. It is not how I like to lead my life.

I've always been one to shy away from the publicity, the limelight, whatever you want to call it. I prefer to be in the background.

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.

Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.