Bertie Carvel Quotes

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

Everyone likes taking their own photos and seeing themselves reflected back.

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

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

Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'

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

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.