Alphonse Karr Quotes

You know, most people really don't know me.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn’t it? Everything else is artful.

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 think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.

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.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.

I've been cast as myself so many times, I guess I should catch on and figure out if it's a compliment.

I never manufactured my persona.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.

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

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.