Picabo Street Quotes

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

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

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?

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna - that's an idea of who I am.

I don't want a 'good' image.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.

People around me tell me that I need a bigger persona and to act a little more A-listy because 'that's where you are but you don't act that way, so people undervalue you.' But that's not me.

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

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

I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.