Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.

I took a selfie to prove to myself that I exist!

When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.

I can't look at the mirror beyond two minutes. I don't know what to look at. What is the point of looking at yourself? You can't change your face.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

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.

I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.

Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.

It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

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

When you hit your 40s, you're walking around, and you realize, 'Oh, my God, men don't look at me anymore.' Or sometimes you can feel really good, and then you look in the mirror, and you're like, 'Oh, Jesus, that's my face now!' But I have tell you that something happened and shifted inside of me.

I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'

Body image has a lot to do with where you're coming from personally.

I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'

I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular?