Jessica Chastain Quotes

We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

I truly believe that getting dressed in the morning is about deciding who you want to be, what you're saying in the world, and how you want people to see you. It's so much more than superficial.

Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that.

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

Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

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.

Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.

Names aren't just coathooks, they're coats. They're the first thing anyone knows about you.

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.