The Weeknd Quotes

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

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

I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'

I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do with myself, but they usually don't use a bad photo, so you can't worry too much. So my main concern is that I just look a bit more like myself.

I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

I never watch anything I do. I really would rather just not know at all how I come across.

I don't have a great face for camera.

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

People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.

I don't know; I don't really look at pictures of me when I'm in public.

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

I don't think a lot of people know personally who I am.

I've been cast as myself so many times, I guess I should catch on and figure out if it's a compliment.