Beau Willimon Quotes

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

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

My biggest regret is that I've assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character. I don't regret what has happened to me, but I regret the way I have dealt with it.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.

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.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

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

A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.

It's really hard to watch yourself on TV. It's definitely different in that the world has to watch, too.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.

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

One of the things is, I don't read my own press. I never watch myself.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

I really never watched myself on TV.

I'm very aware of my image and the perception of me.

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 think it's strange for people to read about themselves, no matter what's portrayed or how it's portrayed. But they get used to it, and I think they're fine with it.

The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.