Ben Feldman Quotes

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

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

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

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

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

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

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

With acting, I've got a character to inhabit. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. For me it's uncomfortable territory. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you.

When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense.

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

I could easily not be the person that people know.

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

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

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

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

People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself.

It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.