Sebastian Horsley Quotes

I am myself a fabulous fake.

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

You can't become what you aren't, or you will start feeling awful about yourself.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.

I'm not a bona fide human being.

It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

I often don't feel like the person I look like.

I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me.

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

I was living a life of a lie, I really was.

Every time I try to tell people things about my career, I wonder if that's the truth or something I'm fantasizing about.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

I had to fool the world into accepting me. I didn't seem to fit the mould of my idols.