Nicole Polizzi Quotes

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.

When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.

I used to be in my own world and keep to myself all the time, so there may have been a perception about my reserved demeanour that was misconstrued as arrogance. But when people interact with you, then they know the real you.

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

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

I know I seem really friendly, but I'm a closet introvert.

Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interacting. Extroverts have the opposite preference; they tend to gain energy by interacting and expend energy while reflecting.

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

I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

When you see me on TV, that's about as close to my real personality as you can get.

I'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own.

As I was writing, I realised I wasn't sufficiently extrovert to gather enough interesting souls with tall tales around me. I was no Louis Theroux. But neither was I interested in exploring my inner life in public, in the manner of a Jonathan Raban.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'