E. B. White Quotes

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

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

I don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.

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

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

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.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

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

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.

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 think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was.

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.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

There's nothing that reflects me. I'm unreflectable!

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself.

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

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.

You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.