Mila Kunis Quotes

Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.

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

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

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 really see myself that way, as some typical sexy young ingénue. I've never been that way. And, for a while, there was a disconnect between who I am and how I present myself on a public platform. That was because I didn't necessarily feel comfortable sharing that much of myself with other people who I didn't know.

Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone's opinion of me by them knowing me as a person instead of an artist.

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

What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.

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

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection 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 step into a character in my public life. People who don't make that distinction are dooooomed.

I don't want a 'good' image.

My father saw a separation between Johnny Cash the entertainer, his business, and the person. The good ole boy. He carried that with him. Or he tried to. Sometimes the lines got crossed.

When I do an interview, when I appear on camera, I want to be the same person as the one you meet personally and say, 'He is really the same person I saw on television.'

I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.

We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?

I get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I'm talking to. So I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

I think a lot of people assume from my music and stuff I'm constantly talking about deep and meaningful things, but then with my friends I'm just a class clown.

I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.