Laverne Cox Quotes

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

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

I'm trying to have some control over my image.

At first, I was scared that if I claimed I modeled, people would be like, 'What?'

I care about how I carry and present myself.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.

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

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

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

I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am.

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

I'm basically a professional nerd, and I'm still not cool. I'm around people who are cool sometimes, and I know I'm not them. But that's OK; I don't care.

I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walker!' my hair stands up on the back of my neck. It's uncomfortable. But when I hear, 'It's Brian!' it's cool. I like Brian.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

People tell me I'm intimidating and I've got to come to terms with it.

I know the book on me is I'm bombastic and over-the-top, but I think people who know me know that's a part of who I am, but it's not who I am.

I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

I don't want a 'good' image.