Alexa Chung Quotes

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

If I feel like I'm myself, then I'm very uncomfortable.

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.

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

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

You go from nobody looking at you to people taking second looks. I remember really loving it - and then feeling so guilty for loving it. Like, 'That's gross, Kristen.' Also, telling myself it could go away at any moment, and I'd be so sad.

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

I still don't look like what I think I look like.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

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

I didn't want to be looked at. I remember when I was six or seven asking my mom why people were looking at me. She said, 'They're looking at you because you're a beautiful little girl.' But I didn't believe her. And yet I put myself in a business where people have to look at you. I think I learnt to block it out.