Jameela Jamil Quotes

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

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

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

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

I think people have a warped sense of who I am.

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.

What people think when they see me on TV is that they're experiencing me but they're not.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.

What really ticks me off is how the public figures you automatically become the roles you play. What most people never see is the silly side of me.

I was Mr. Olympia and everywhere I went I had to project this image. After some time you start wondering what part of that is really you and which bit you're doing because it's your job.

There's two Michaels: there's, like, my Michael. And the Michael that everyone else sees. Michael the entertainer.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who spoke the truth.

People see me as something I'm not.

I basically believe that all pop stars create personas and manipulate them. What we relate to are not their real selves; they are projections, which tend to shift in shape.