Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

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.

You are what you pretend to be.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

We are what we pretend to be.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

I don't care if I'm funny. I just want people to believe I'm that guy.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

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.

We create constructs to understand ourselves, the way we look, how we feel, what we believe - and we telegraph that 'branding' to the world.

I never manufactured my persona.

I've always just introduced myself as Adam Copeland. I never really thought too much about it.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

Appear tougher or cooler or funnier than you feel and there is a chance you'll make it.

Appear as you are, or be as you appear.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

Act like the person you conceive yourself to be.

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.