Macy Gray Quotes

For me personally, I just don't have anything to prove anymore. I know exactly who I am, I know that I'm intelligent and acting dumb or acting like whatever. If that's funny to me because I know it's false then so be it.

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

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

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

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

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

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

It's not easy to talk about myself at all.

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.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me.

I don't need much of a character in my life. I've already got one; my family knows who I am, and I don't have a reason to make an impression on the world around me unless it's in a professional context. Acting is not a personal experience; it's a job.

I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness.

I define myself.

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 am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.

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