Rosamund Pike Quotes

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

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

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

I think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.

I never manufactured my persona.

I go through the same kind of situations as other people. I have to give that to people, because people have this facade, this mirage, this mirror about me.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing