Kathleen Hanna Quotes

I don't even watch my own actual self on TV.

It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

Sometimes I forget that I am even watching myself, realizing that's me. It's like you almost become a fan yourself: You are just this normal person watching this show, and then you realize that it's your show. It's weird sometimes.

I've been cast as myself so many times, I guess I should catch on and figure out if it's a compliment.

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

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

I realize I'm a mirror.

If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.