Maurice Ravel Quotes

And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn't really see you or chose not to. I'd felt the self-loathing that came with being a fraud, protraying an image of what you wished you could be but weren't. I'd lived with the fear that people you loved might turn away from you if they ever got to know the true person hidden inside.

I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

In my show I announce, 'People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.'

It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.

I'm not a bona fide human being.

My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!

I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider.

I don't really see myself that way, as some typical sexy young ingénue. I've never been that way. And, for a while, there was a disconnect between who I am and how I present myself on a public platform. That was because I didn't necessarily feel comfortable sharing that much of myself with other people who I didn't know.

I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person!

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

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

It's harder to put yourself in a place where you could easily be seen as a fake. But that's more interesting to me.

As soon as you start claiming you can be someone that you are not, you are crazy.

God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.

In my little world, I'm very protected 'cause I'm treated like the idiot I am by my buddies. But, a little bit outside that world, people sometimes expect heavy things from me. For a little time, I tried to appease and not disappoint people but in the end you're just going to kill yourself and fail if you're trying to give more than you are.

Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?

I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

Maybe that's why people take pictures of themselves, to avoid being described.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.

Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

I really never thought people would think that I was funny, I thought (my friends) thought I was funny because I was their friend, but other people would just think I was an asshole. I was at least partly right.