Ansel Elgort Quotes

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

There is the real person I am, and there is the stage persona.

Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

We're all more complex than the person we put out there.

The person I am on the court is not who I am off the court.

People just get to see me onstage, and they don't get whole of me.

With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.

No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

When you see me on TV, that's about as close to my real personality as you can get.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.