Neena Gupta Quotes

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

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

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.

I often don't feel like the person I look like.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.

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

I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

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.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

I've spent the better part of two decades running both toward and away from an image - the Hollywood image - that had come to define me.

I wanted to change my name when I first started because I thought, 'No-one is going to believe that it is my name.'

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

I've only ever been mistaken for myself. People draw a lot of comparisons to all of the round-faced, mustached men of entertainment that make me cringe and sick to my stomach about how the world really sees me and they're right.

I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't go out to football games and drink beer and have a good time, I do it myself. But, at the same time, people are so apathetic and that shows me that they don't care about themselves. They have no self-image. Their image is projected to them via the television and that is where they make decisions about who they are according to what the public says they ought to be.

The biggest danger, for me, with making yourself your act is that a lot of people with think they know you for better or worse. That's an ongoing struggle with me and it can get really trippy sometimes. I try to be strong about it and assure myself that only my close friends and family can really pass judgement on me personally, but it's impossible to not let it get to you.