Brian Herbert Quotes

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.

There was something sweet in watching him pull himself back together, restoring the façade he wore for the world while I knew at least a little of the man beneath it.

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.

People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

All of us are private to ourselves. Nobody ever really knows anybody else. Everybody in the world keeps something to themselves.

There are so many ways in which the heart of man conceals itself from man!

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

I step into a character in my public life. People who don't make that distinction are dooooomed.

It is a part of my personality, but not the full circle. That character that you see is 'The Situation.' It's not Michael Sorrentino. You're seeing 'The Situation,' almost like Clark Kent and Superman.

Due to my serious kind of roles, people - apart from my close friends and family - did not know the real me.

You have a different personality in front of the world than you do in front of your pals at home. I like to keep them separate.

I want to show people how I really am. Most people are only familiar with some of the headlines.

We're all more complex than the person we put out there.

I always break it down I am three different people. I'm Troy Deeney the footballer, I'm daddy who the kids get to see and I'm Troy which a few of my mates get to see.