Lauren Mayberry Quotes

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

You've got to be really careful that you're not falling into the Hollywood trap, you know?

There's such an emphasis on people being the perfect thing and then destroying them because it's good press.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

None of us have it all together; it just seems that way on Instagram.

Sometimes I'm not into being a human.

I'm not trying to make everything this fantasy world about how I'm living this lavish life that I'm not really living.

This celebrity culture that hypnotizes people into thinking a person is literally not real because you see them on television is a spell the watcher him- or herself must break.

Television brings with it two dangerous hazards: the worship of celebrity and the blurring of reality and fantasy.

I ended my Twitter account a week after I got on the show. I felt like, "This is not a good tool for me to keep my narcissism at bay," so I cut it off.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

I am beginning to loathe & detest all that Hollywood represents.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

I took a selfie to prove to myself that I exist!

When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.

I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.

Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.

It happened on 'Laguna Beach' where you don't know what's real and fake, and I saw cast members who couldn't distinguish what was real and what was fake anymore. It was kind of scary to see, so I kept them very separate so that I didn't go crazy.

I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.

We're not as happy as our Instagrams and Twitters make us out to be.

At some point, I kind of went through this weird existential crisis in high school where I was just really depressed.

There was a time where I was really confused about who I was and what I was doing, and I was just kind of depressed.