Aaron McGruder Quotes

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.

The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.

I get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I'm talking to. So I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.

There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me.

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.

Nobody is like the person I am on TV, surely, only Cruella de Vil, or the wicked witch from Snow White.

I never said, I am just a beauty queen or just an actress.

I'm not an actress, I'm a girl who was on reality TV.

I think people have a warped sense of who I am.

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.

I want to show people how I really am. Most people are only familiar with some of the headlines.

In real life, I am nothing like a playboy.

I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who spoke the truth.

My whole life, I've been judged for how I look, which is part and parcel of being in the public eye, playing sexy roles and posing for lad's mags, but I want people to like me for my personality and brain.

I'm quite cool about my sex symbol image. It's nothing to be proud of or ashamed of.