Gillian Flynn Quotes

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.

It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

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.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

I am myself a fabulous fake.

Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.

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

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

I'm not rebellious. I try to be rebellious, but I don't walk around being rebellious for no reason.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

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

I feel like I can be six different people in one day sometimes. Which is fun but also really strange in my own brain.

I don't want a 'good' image.

The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.

I've always just introduced myself as Adam Copeland. I never really thought too much about it.

I'm never quite sure if I'm me when I'm dressed up.

We are not always even what we are most.