Henry Rollins Quotes

But most of us who aren't models aren't models, right? And so, you just have to get used to that and sort of read right past it. So. On the sex symbol piece, I don't get that piece. On the personality piece, that people are excited to meet a leader from Mozilla - maybe there's more about meeting me personally than I give credit for, but I find that people are excited about what Mozilla is, more than 'Oh my god, there's Mitchell, look, her hair,' whatever.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.

When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.

It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

I really never watched myself on TV.

It took me a while to get used to watching myself on TV.

I don't know what people think of me.

My first media interview was when I was a high school freshman and I was set to compete at state champs. The interview was the first occasion people had heard me on TV. When I watched back the recording on TV, I thought, 'Wow, is that what I sound like?' I didn't like the sound of my voice.

I don't think I look like I do on the telly.

I enjoy being myself on television, where I am not enacting a character.

I'm not used to being in front of a camera as myself. I'm not used to watching myself as myself.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

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

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.