Amy Sherald Quotes

They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?

If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.

There is no self-portrait of me.

Throughout my life, I've known that if I change my hair, if I change my look, people I know will blank me in the street.

I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.

It used to be that, whenever I walked around without my old piercings, that I was very rarely recognized - it wasn't a common thing; I could be somewhat incognito.

Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

I think technology is us, not something we invented. I think we are more psychic now because we have cell phones and you can look and see who's calling you. When people start seeing technology as us, as humanity, our whole idea of what existence is, is going to shift.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

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

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

I think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.

Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.

I don't think I'm boring.