Mark Kurlansky Quotes

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

I'm trying to have some control over my image.

Now every person edits the story they tell about themselves, carefully ensuring what the world looks at - whether it's over Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it. Maybe things would have gone differently for me in some ways if I had.

I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.

No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

I'm not a big fan of just cultivating an image.

People share things that make them look good.

What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

I'm very specific about what I put out on social media about myself. But that's also why I like social media: because it feels like the only thing that I have to control my own image.

I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

The way I'm portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it's partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I'm digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.

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

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.

If we're reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to be seen in a certain way, or to be perceived in a certain way. It's unavoidable.

Everyone's surprised when they meet me. I guess it's because I've played tough cookies for so long... It's what I do best. I'm not sure I could pull off a genteel Southern belle.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?