Marisa Coughlan Quotes

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.

Everybody has a story... and a scream.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

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.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

It's tough being me.

For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

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

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that.

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.