Andre Gide Quotes

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

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

I often don't feel like the person I look like.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that... ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

I have no issues with my identity.

With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

In my job, I am portrayed as a misfit, a grandiose high fashion lady or an unearthly creature. At home, it's important I can look in the mirror, strip away the disguise and be comfortable with who stares back.

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

Your appearance shouldn't define who you are, and that's what I like, the contrast between people looking like the opposite of what they truly are deep inside.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.