Ben Carson Quotes

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

I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy.

You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.

People just get to see me onstage, and they don't get whole of me.

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

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

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.

Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.

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

Every actor I know - any reasonable actor I know - is complicated. What you see and what they are, those are two very different things.