It's a multi-layered persona and the catchphrases "I was never confused", "rules is rules" and "glass of white wine for the lady" come out of the character rather than vice versa.
Yet that distinction is merely relative; one of the strengths of Danson's performance on "Curb" is the way he subverts his nice-guy persona, layering in pettiness and malice.
Her pursed delivery, which emphasises the sub-clause of joke as much as the punch line, is precise and while her material on her relationship with her husband looks it might layer her persona she is, in the nicest, most professional way, a consummate machine.
Mr. Broderick, whose comic milquetoast mien has been hardening into shtick in recent years, reinvents and revitalizes that persona in a beautifully layered performance.
People of both sexes fell for him at the same moment as a classical male persona had been explored or layered, and only Brando could have held the human beast and the brooding angel in balance.
Like a postmodern writer, she has borrowed from the stable that preceded her and has plagiarized, layered herself and constructed a bricolage into the sculptural persona she has become and upon whom it is difficult to attach a singular interpretation.
It's genius, in its way – the persona it layers over your own, the story it tells.
But he abandoned the earlier film's overt mockery for an elaborate irony that peeled away, layer by layer, his cinematic persona and left him a tabula rasa for his own reinvention — yet one that blazes with a repudiation of prevailing mores and values.
It opened on Nov. 28, at New York's Feinstein's/54 Below and has Hall peeling back the layers of a persona shaped by roles in "Hedwig" and "Kinky Boots" as well as by being the lead singer of a rock band, The Deafening.
Yi uses a recurring structural device, the layering of his own persona with an incongruous first person narrator, which "An Anonymous Island" follows.
Even under the layers of her public persona and singing style, which thickened in the '50s, Holiday was a completely radical singer.
