Stefano Gabbana Quotes

I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

There's a fake Facebook me. There's a fake me Twittering. Sometimes, when it was at the height of right-wing nonsense picking on me, there would be a fake me writing letters to the editor. Just totally not even something I've ever said, that will then become part of the echo chamber.

I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.

I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.

Manti Te'o got catfished. It happens.

All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron) Why? (Talon) Well, it obviously isn’t to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)

I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys named Lou who collect and wear string cheese.

I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars.

I can fake anything.

I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.'

When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both.'

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.

People are not likely to lie on the Internet about the atomic number of Rubidium, but they will lie about history.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

I got rid of my Instagram and had a flip phone for two years. I only started one after a friend told me someone was impersonating me.

I've heard stories of people, even celebrities that have gone online, pretended to be someone they weren't, and conducted a 5-year friendship via e-mail. Then, they got married because they really love each other from all that communication.

Everyone thinks that I have an Instagram account for my dog, but I did not make that. It's a fan!

All that social media hyperbole is just so fake.

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.

The problem of online identity is expressed best in an old 'New Yorker' cartoon with a picture of a dog next to a computer, and the dog says, 'No one online knows you're a dog.'

But yeah, so many people are just not very genuine online. I caught myself looking for my ex, and a lot of these people that I would swipe right on, I'm meeting them in real life and they're just not that guy at all.