Jennette McCurdy Quotes

The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

I am not what you see and hear.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.

I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

The whole image thing gets in the way. Then there are the guys that it excites them and it's what draws them to me. But I don't know whether they would care for me if I didn't have this image.

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The character of a man, the integrity, that's who you are.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.

Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.

People put me in this ditzy, posh and stuck-up category, so it's been nice the public have been able to see the real me.

All I want kids to know is that I see them for who they are and not who everyone thinks they are.

I'm fascinated by people who can keep who they are in the midst of this business, which is all about not only pretending to be other people, but also that perception of who you are and how successful you are and your standing in the business.