Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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

I don't think I'm better than other people, I think I'm different from other people, because I do different things.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I'm not going to try and change how people perceive me. I think it's important to be a contradiction. People are contradictions; everyone has contradictions. So I don't expect anyone to look at me differently.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.

It's a frightening thing to act on your opinions. You've got to find confidence in yourself, not in what others think of you. I'm still trying to separate how I see myself from how I'm perceived. It's not easy, but it's worth it.

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 don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.

How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

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

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

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.

I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

I see bodies as individual things.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.