Alan Coren Quotes

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

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

Personality for me is the strongest statement.

I don't feel like I'm a character; I certainly don't feel like I'm a gimmick. I am who I am.

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.

Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself.

As a consumer of entertainment, as a director, I'm always interested in questions of identity and who someone is and how they're perceived and who they are versus who they thought they'd be.

Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring.

I'm totally myself.

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

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

I don't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, it's very difficult to find.

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you've really got; when you strip everything down, that's all you've got, so always be yourself.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.