Rita Tushingham Quotes

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.

It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.

I wanted to change my name when I first started because I thought, 'No-one is going to believe that it is my name.'

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

I've only ever been mistaken for myself. People draw a lot of comparisons to all of the round-faced, mustached men of entertainment that make me cringe and sick to my stomach about how the world really sees me and they're right.

We are not always even what we are most.

I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.

Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it's who the Candor think I am.

There is nothing to talk about" she said. "I'm just a freak that's all.

I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?

I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed. Major psychological disturbances, 'identity crises', are caused when an individual begins to change the audience for whom he plays: from parents to peers; from peers to the works of Albert Camus; from the Bible to Hugh Hefner.

I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

I wasn't pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I wasn't unattract­ive enough to be the dorky girl.

Blondes do have more fun. But sometimes I look in the mirror and still feel like I'm wearing a wig.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.