Tika Sumpter Quotes

Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

When people meet me or hear me in person, they quickly learn that I am much more than a tweet and a profile picture.

I just want to be seen as what I am - just look beyond TV/social media, and you will see what kind of person I am.

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

I want to live my life, not record it.

I'm way flashier on Instagram and Snapchat because I feel like that's what people want to see, and that's I've always done, so I'm not going to stop. People want to see my cars and my purses. People love fashion. But that's so not me.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

People think they have a perfect idea of who you are from a four-second Snapchat video... and fake blogs, stories, magazine covers. In reality, that's not the case. Nobody knows who I am except family and my close friends.

We're not show-business people. We have a life.

There is absolutely a side of me that people don't know. I'm not myself on Snapchat or Instagram. That's totally not me.

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you're viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

We wrap ourselves up in social media and fame and forget what matters.

It is very important to just be real and have a good check on reality in life.

I am very different in real life as compared to whatever people have seen of me on the big screen.

Life is too short to play-act if you don't have to.

I love social media. It's nice to share a side of me that people don't generally get to see or know about. I want them to know me, beyond my characters.

I like to just live my life in a very real way.

One of the interesting things about my father was that what you see on-camera is a lot of what he was like in real life.

You don't even know if the person you're communicating with online is actually that person. And your persona on your social media - your Facebook or Twitter - may not be the person you are in real life. So then, who is the real person? Is it somewhere in between?

I'm just - like, I'm just very over the whole superficial life and world we live in.

There's no difference between my persona on Twitter and Instagram and in real life.

Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party

I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that goes away and you are left with, God help us, what, indeed, is your essential self?

I'm not one to hide anything, but I don't feel the need to comment directly on [my relationships]... I think it would be a shame to not live in the moment and not enjoy everything that's happening in fear of other people's opinions.