Steve Carell Quotes

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

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

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.

You have to be someone.

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

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

Nixon's pretense was to be less than he was—less thoughtful, less introverted, less skeptical and analytical, less cerebral—to present himself deliberately as an Average American: patriotic, conventionally religious and responsible, gregarious, sports-loving, hardworking and hard-nosed.

It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.

What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

It's the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want

Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.

You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.

With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.