Chester Brown Quotes

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

There is no self-portrait of me.

I've always just introduced myself as Adam Copeland. I never really thought too much about it.

You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

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.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

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

I'm trying to have some control over my image.

I want to represent my name to the fullest: Ginuwine.

I'm definitely not trying to go out of my way to create my own image or ensure my own imprint.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

"My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside."

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

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.

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.