Lili Reinhart Quotes

There's more of me on Twitter than there is in real life.

Online, you play at being yourself.

Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.

Approximating authenticity online is not such a tall order. In fact, it may be the very least we can do.

The image that is on screen is very different from who I am in real life.

Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective.

I could have a sex change and become a woman, physically. But in some ways that isn't even necessary. Because we live in a time when real life, and virtual life are at parity. We are so used to being creators, and creating versions of ourselves, mainly online, and through our communication technology, that I could very well picture myself as a woman, and consider myself a woman, even if my body would be classified as a male body by a medical examiner.

I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.

We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?

Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.

If you see me walking down the street, you're gonna see the same guy as you do on stage, dressed the same, looking the same, and nothing changes. I'm just one person.

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

You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.

Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

There is absolutely a side of me that people don't know. I'm not myself on Snapchat or Instagram. That's totally not me.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

Online, offline, it's gotta be the same.

It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.

I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera. Someone who does this wonderfully well is Lena Dunham.

Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.

I mean, look when you meet me in real life, I'm not the person you see on the Internet, as disappointing as that is.