Ryan Eggold Quotes

People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?

I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things.

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

You have to pretend to be cool, which I never am.

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

I used to have blue hair, and a lot of people hated that I had blue or green hair, and I'd get so many comments like, 'you're so perfect, but why do you have blue hair?' And it's like, okay, but it's my hair and I can do whatever I want.

People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's no problems. I feel like a lot of people are trying to be someone they're not, and when you're just yourself, life is so much easier because you don't have to keep up this facade.

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.

Sometimes you have to be somebody you're not.

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

It's not normal for a white guy to get corn rows; a lot of people judged me. I like the way it looks, so you have to be confident.

I was pretending to be a fake, a caricature, which is something I'm not, and I was doing it out of desperation and scarcity so I could provide for my family.

The shirt thing just started one day when I bought one with a really interesting pattern, and people laughed at it, so I thought, 'I'll keep buying daft shirts with flowers on.'

It's important for kids to know they can be themselves, and that it's OK to have dreams and goals they love and that may not be cool or popular to other kids.

Sometimes I get a lot of stuff, being in Houston, being in a conservative place, and wearing weird stuff that I wear. People don't get it sometimes. I like it.

All men in makeup are playing a part.

Anything that's outside the standard of the average black male is looked down upon. For me, I wasn't raised playing sports. I was artistic, so that was looked down upon by people in my church, and I was teased for that growing up in school, so it goes both ways.

Where I come from, dressing is a culture. When I go back home, I cannot dress bad. I cannot miss, or people will be like, 'What's going on with you, Serge? Did you lose your mind, or what?' That's the culture.

For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.

All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron) Why? (Talon) Well, it obviously isn’t to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)

And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.