Michael Shannon Quotes

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

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.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

I have never been interested in presenting myself.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I want people to get a better sense of who I am, whether they've seen every video or zero videos.

However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

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

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.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

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

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

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

I just want people to know me.

I've grown up very much living my life very visibly. I've never really hidden who I am.