Cindy Sherman Quotes

I have no issues with my identity.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

It's not easy to talk about myself at all.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

I define myself.

In real life, I feel tiny and quite embarrassed all the time. But when people come up to me in France and want to talk to Christine, it's okay. It's cool. Because they're really talking about themselves, their own Christines.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.

I don't think I'm boring.

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

When I think of myself, I'm definitely... I'm not like a comedian.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.