Ray Lewis Quotes

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

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

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

There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am. I read about this girl who lives in grand hotels and has affairs with American actors - I don't recognise this girl at all. Sometimes it makes me depressed. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Sometimes I think, 'Gosh, that sounds nice, I'd love to be that girl.'

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world.

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

For me, I've never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

Everyone has a mirror face that's so different from their natural face. And I think it's interesting, seeing the way people want to be viewed when they're putting themselves together.

I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.

I am a character, so that's the problem. There are many, many levels to how I behave. Some people might associate being Marilyn Manson as having lipstick on, but I don't really have some sort of other lifestyle.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

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

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

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

The way people see you is the way you really are.

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.

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.