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I'm not interested in a persona.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

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.

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

In my career, which has been fairly two-dimensional, people make decisions based on your persona.

As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves - one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person.

Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.

You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.