Morgan Fairchild Quotes

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

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.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me.

I never manufactured my persona.

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.

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.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

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.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

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

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

No one is ever who they purport to be.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.