Cindy Sherman Quotes

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others.

The mirror can lie. It doesn’t show you what’s inside.

Even though I've done a lot it also feels like I haven't done a lot. I've sort of popped in for supporting roles in things, and that's been really delightful.

Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself standout. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths.

All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.

I think everyone sometimes feels intimidated by themselves when they see themselves on the screen.

For when I fool the people I fear, I fool myself as well.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

The best lies about me are the ones I told.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it.

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.