Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

I've never met anyone that is their image.

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

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.

I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.

I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

I know the book on me is I'm bombastic and over-the-top, but I think people who know me know that's a part of who I am, but it's not who I am.

I always come across like I'm looking serious, but I just don't like smiling. Honestly, obviously I'm different in person.

I'm desperate to be in the same room as Katie Hopkins. There are a few things I'd like to say to her, really calmly. I'd just like to put forward a case for her to integrate the 'her' that she pretends to be on TV with the 'her' she is as a real person.

I share a lot more than I ever really thought I would with friends, let alone millions of people, and it really started surface level for me: beauty, fashion, lifestyle, whatever.

I enjoy being myself on television, where I am not enacting a character.

I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

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

I don't want to misrepresent who I am personally. I don't want my kids to see me on a talk show and say, "You're talking different" or "You look different, dad." I'm not gonna be an animal; I know how to conduct myself.

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.

I don't really see myself that way, as some typical sexy young ingénue. I've never been that way. And, for a while, there was a disconnect between who I am and how I present myself on a public platform. That was because I didn't necessarily feel comfortable sharing that much of myself with other people who I didn't know.

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen. So we close our eyes to relationship, and we go on thinking that something is going to be seen inside. You cannot see anything inside.

I think some people who go into public life, if they go in needing the applause of thousands, they're never going to work out successfully in the end, because they don't know who they are apart from the crowds.

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.