Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be.

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.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

There is your persona and then there's the real you. I was living inside my persona too much.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

We are what we pretend to be.

I spent more time playing a person I was not than the person I am.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.