Alexa Chung Quotes

I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!

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.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I didn't always want to be a model, but once I started, I realized how much I loved it.

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

When I was a model, I started with an opinion, but was encouraged to lose it. It began as play-acting, but then I lost sight of myself a bit: so when I did the audition for 'Popworld' and they asked my opinion, I felt like crying with happiness.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.

Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

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

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have the nicest outfit, work with the best makeup artist. While all that's nice, we're also human beings.

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

I don't consider myself a sex symbol.

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.