Cindy Sherman Quotes

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

In our subconscious, we all know we're playing roles.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

I never manufactured my persona.

I'm always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.

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

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

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

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.

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

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

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

I don't know. You know, when I'm not acting, I'm not an actor. I'm just a person. That's how I go through life. I'd rather not - you know, like a lot of actors, you know, they spend their whole 24 hours a day being an actor.

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

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

If you're going to pretend to be somebody you're not - which is the whole point of being a rock star - then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

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