Jamie Wyeth Quotes

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you're viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

When I was 18, and my looks were what I was - and all that I was - it did feel very limiting.

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.

Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was.

We're always looking over our shoulders, 'what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one - am I making the right career move?' When you're young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look?

There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, 'OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo,' and I was having problems coping with that image.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

Most people care what people think about them... we all do.

I overheard people saying, 'She thinks she's so great because she's Debbie Reynolds' daughter!' And I didn't like it; it made me different from other people, and I wanted to be the same.

We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.

My image has swallowed me up! I've given so much out to this projected version of myself, but now I have to live up to this character that I don't even associate half the time.