Howard Jacobson Quotes

I just don't want to be seen as a strong person.

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

I've never met anyone that is their image.

It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

I am myself a fabulous fake.

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

When I've got all the makeup on and all the spit, polish and glue together, I look fine. But I know what I really look like, and I'm still that same little kid under there. I don't think I look that great. I think I did a good job of creating Morgan Fairchild. But I created her.

Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal.

I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

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

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

I used to believe that George Michael was a total actor. It was self-defeating, because it made me also feel fraudulent.

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously, but only the 'light-hearted' Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the 'deeper' Anne is too weak.

I'm 25. I'm a white, blonde girl in the entertainment industry - it's so easy to fall into a world of pleasing everyone. I feel more comfortable showing all these odd angles to myself.

I'm not a fake person.

I'm always super scared of feeling like a fake.

People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's no problems. I feel like a lot of people are trying to be someone they're not, and when you're just yourself, life is so much easier because you don't have to keep up this facade.

I never manufactured my persona.