Noel Edmonds Quotes

People just get to see me onstage, and they don't get whole of me.

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna - that's an idea of who I am.

People know me only from the Octagon, from the gym. I'm a different person outside and I am who I want to be.

When I'm on tour, people see me in one way, but in normal life I doubt people even recognize me.

I think a lot of people assume from my music and stuff I'm constantly talking about deep and meaningful things, but then with my friends I'm just a class clown.

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

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

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus.

Having a reality TV show, everyone feels like they know you, but that's only 10% of my life. There's a whole other side of me that people don't see.

I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.

I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality.... So I knew that I had to create some characters.

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.