Margaret Stohl Quotes

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

I still don't look like what I think I look like.

I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.

I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.

Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

I'm the kid who wanted to grow up and be Bugs Bunny. I was very, very disappointed when I realized I couldn't grow up and be a cartoon character.

I turned 30, and everyone told me I would feel different, and I didn't.

I've made so many films in New York. There was an assumption I think a lot of people had that I am a New Yorker, that I am from New York, and I always felt like nothing could be further from the truth.

All these old images of me floating across the screen, the terrible chasm of what you were and what you are. I know who I am, but these people who see me as I was then don't.

The only way my mother's beauty really affected me was that I always assumed that someday I would look like her. Then, late in my teens, I looked at a photo of her when she was younger than I was then, and I realised, no, it's never going to happen.

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

It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

I watched myself get drafted by myself. I walked out of my own draft party because I was a little frustrated.

I'm a different girl almost every time I look in the mirror.

I am not what a girl dreams of.