Sebastian Horsley Quotes

I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

What you see is what you get. What you hear is who I am.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

Very few of us are what we seem.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

I am not what you see and hear.

I’m not anything that you think I am.

We are what we seem to be.

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

I am fascinated by that notion of people are never as they seem. And that doesn't make them good or bad. It's just we don't ever really show ourselves if we don't have to.

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

I always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any character. I just put myself as me in this world of Remington Steele and the grand pretender.

Being is like pretending.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.