Jane Pauley Quotes

Everyone likes taking their own photos and seeing themselves reflected back.

There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

There is no self-portrait of 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.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

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

A selfie is a sort of interesting way to reclaim the gaze, right? You're looking at yourself and taking a photo while looking at everyone. But also, who cares?

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.

I define myself.

For me, like, obviously, I want to see myself onscreen.

For me, Instagram had become a place where I could image myself the way I found myself.

I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

For after all we make our faces as we go along.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

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

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

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

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