Jidenna Quotes

Hollywood is a land of style, a world where how you present yourself matters. Many of the people working here are so dramatically good-looking - that is their style. That's not me, and I know that.

I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?

I think we choose gear by the way that it looks. We choose lots of things by the way that it looks. I don't like bands that look like roadies. I don't like when I can't tell who's the guitar tech and who's the guitar player.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

People always want to get behind the image on the screen, and I'm not sure there is one. I don't put on an act.

What you wear - and it always starts with your shoes - determines what kind of character you are. A woman who wears high heels carries herself very different to a girl who wears sneakers or sandals. It really helps determine how you carry yourself.

You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.

The thing is that what you see on Snapchat, that's DJ Khaled. That's Khaled for real. That's Khaled.

People so obsessed with being real in hip-hop because they don't want people to think that they're lying.

What people think when they see me on TV is that they're experiencing me but they're not.

Fashion is temporary; fashion is a race. What it's doing is giving you something that you say, "This is the outer wrapping of me." Style is something else. It's not quantifiable. Fashion is about selling. Fashion is about what's in. Style is independent of that; style is individual.

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

I am not what you see and hear.

Interesting shade #23 Lush Golden Blonde highlights. Heyyyyyy.... The woman in the awful suit was me! The woman in the cheap shoes was me!

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.

I don't care if I'm funny. I just want people to believe I'm that guy.

If you want to be noticed, dress the part.