P. J. Harvey Quotes

I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."

Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

I never manufactured my persona.

We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?

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

What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.

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

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

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

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

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

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus.

I've never really done any interviews as myself.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna - that's an idea of who I am.

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.

For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.

What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.