Emily Giffin Quotes

I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."

I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

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

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

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.

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.

In a way, I'd rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have a wonderful, glowing article written that is in no way a reflection of who I am.

When I am spotted somewhere, it means that my characterizations haven't covered up Eleanor Parker the person. I prefer it the other way around.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

There is absolutely a side of me that people don't know. I'm not myself on Snapchat or Instagram. That's totally not me.

I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna - that's an idea of who I am.

I know the book on me is I'm bombastic and over-the-top, but I think people who know me know that's a part of who I am, but it's not who I am.

I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.

The version of me on the Internet, it's not me. It's one portion.

I am very uncomfortable being romantic. I can be funny; I can be all over the place. I can be anything but romantic.

If I claim I'm the opposite of my characters, then it'll just sound awful. But I tend to write the sort of things I'd never say because I'm not a very forceful person.

I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.