Michael Stipe Quotes

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself.

It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

But most of us who aren't models aren't models, right? And so, you just have to get used to that and sort of read right past it. So. On the sex symbol piece, I don't get that piece. On the personality piece, that people are excited to meet a leader from Mozilla - maybe there's more about meeting me personally than I give credit for, but I find that people are excited about what Mozilla is, more than 'Oh my god, there's Mitchell, look, her hair,' whatever.

I'm not used to being in front of a camera as myself. I'm not used to watching myself as myself.

My biggest regret is that I've assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character. I don't regret what has happened to me, but I regret the way I have dealt with it.

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

I have no issues with my identity.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.