Kristen Stewart Quotes

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 can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.

The image is never created by you. It's created by the media, by the people around you. In my real-life self, I would be without make up and in jeans and a T-shirt. But when I'm outside, I'm dressed up. It's not because I enjoy doing it.

I never tried to put myself in situations where I had to be anything other than what people saw on TV.

Maybe I was always more than one person, or even two. Maybe being on TV was just my job. People find it hard to get their heads around that. A couple of times I have shone a light on the other sides of my life, but I have learned to be cautious about that. Because people are only comfortable with the Noel Edmonds they see on television.

My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

When I sit down to talk to men's magazines, there's a certain character that I play. She's not fully fleshed out - she doesn't have her own name - but she shows up to do men's-magazine interviews.

I'm an actor. And like a lot of actors, it's very important that everybody loves you all the time.

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.

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

The version of me you see on TV now and in my feature films is a pretty happy guy, isn't he?

When I'm not doing the show, and the work has stopped, I walk into a restaurant and I'm shy; yet, when I'm in the show, when people come up with their phones and want to take my picture, I can handle it because it's almost like I'm wearing an armour.