Clive Anderson Quotes

I introspect on how I am perceived by other people. It's been this way since my childhood.

When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.

I think it's strange for people to read about themselves, no matter what's portrayed or how it's portrayed. But they get used to it, and I think they're fine with it.

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

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

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.

When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me.

I never like seeing myself on screen.

I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'

I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

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

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.

To be honest, sometimes I'm horrified because you don't really know what you look like. If I really knew what I was doing on-screen, I would try to stop doing it.

I don't even watch my own actual self on TV.

I think it is easier to hear my voice than see myself onscreen, particularly as the years progress. Watching myself onscreen becomes less and less enthralling.

It's impossible not to constantly adjust the way you look at yourself.

It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.

Everybody goes home at the end of the day and looks at themselves in the mirror and sometimes they see things that they want to see that they like, and sometimes they see some things that they don't like.