Alison Goldfrapp Quotes

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am. I read about this girl who lives in grand hotels and has affairs with American actors - I don't recognise this girl at all. Sometimes it makes me depressed. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Sometimes I think, 'Gosh, that sounds nice, I'd love to be that girl.'

I often don't feel like the person I look like.

When I look in the mirror, I never see a handsome chap or the person people think I am.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine.

It's hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.