Kristen Stewart Quotes

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

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.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

The pressure of looking a certain way and having to present yourself a certain way is hard. It's difficult to feel genuine about yourself when you feel the pressure of being a certain person.

I never tried to put myself in situations where I had to be anything other than what people saw on TV.

I don't really see myself that way, as some typical sexy young ingénue. I've never been that way. And, for a while, there was a disconnect between who I am and how I present myself on a public platform. That was because I didn't necessarily feel comfortable sharing that much of myself with other people who I didn't know.

I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.

People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.

I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.

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

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

Having a reality TV show, everyone feels like they know you, but that's only 10% of my life. There's a whole other side of me that people don't see.

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'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it's a weird, like, 'Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?'

I really try to let my friends into all of my life. They know that Red-Carpet Kerry is a version of Kerry, and they know that DNC Speaker Kerry is me.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

I'm a man in a wig who is an entertainer, I'm not a role model.

It was important for me to have other outlets outside of 'Basketball Wives' to represent myself and who I really am and what I really would like to put out there.

What really ticks me off is how the public figures you automatically become the roles you play. What most people never see is the silly side of me.

I want to show people how I really am. Most people are only familiar with some of the headlines.