Amandla Stenberg Quotes

I'm really not about changing my image.

I enjoy being myself on television, where I am not enacting a character.

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

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 could easily not be the person that people know.

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.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

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

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

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 want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'

That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.

I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.

I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.

Maybe that's why people take pictures of themselves, to avoid being described.

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

How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

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 am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.