Antonio Machado Quotes

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

We are what we pretend to be.

I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?

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

I never manufactured my persona.

I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.

You are what you pretend to be.

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.

Our persona was not created by accident; it was created in order to camouflage the parts of ourselves we deemed the most undesirable and to overcompensate for what we believe to be our deepest flaws. What persona are you hiding behind?

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

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.

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.

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

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

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

When I've got all the makeup on and all the spit, polish and glue together, I look fine. But I know what I really look like, and I'm still that same little kid under there. I don't think I look that great. I think I did a good job of creating Morgan Fairchild. But I created her.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

I think I do become someone else. In real life, I’m very shy, but people think I’m this angry, sexy kind of... god knows what they think! And there I am in front of them, nervous and blushing and stuttering and whatnot. So I’m definitely not the person you see in pictures. I mean, in pictures, you look like something you’re not.