Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Once people take time to find out who I really am you'd be surprised

A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.

You feel like people are looking at you like, 'I wanted the old Kathleen. Where's the old Kathleen?' I felt that way in the beginning of Le Tigre. I felt people were like, 'You're not angry enough anymore.' People still ask me that. 'Are you still angry?' I'm like, 'About what? About that question? Yes.'

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.

Clothes are endless possibilities for meaning because with every change or different association, you are a different person.

I am not stagnating in one kind of an image.

Sometimes, people only change what they look like for the acceptance of other people, and that's where you start going wrong.

Things are always different from what they might be.

When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.

The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same.

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.

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.

For years now, people have mentioned my mustache and get disappointed that when they see me live I don't have a mustache.

People will tell me, "You're such a punk rebel," this or that, but I was not that growing up. I was actually a super-sheltered, conservative girl. Now, there was probably a bit of me that was like, "Why do I have to be like that?"

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.

On one hand it's very flattering to be compared to a big success, and then sometimes it's very frustrating because you want people to see the movie that you're making and not be continually comparing it to something that it's not. So it goes both ways.