Debbie Millman Quotes

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.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

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

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

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

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

For me, I've never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

You have to have an overall vision of how you want people to see you.

If you think I'm just another pretty face, read my Facebook updates, read my articles, read the interviews I've done and judge for yourself.

People know I take good bikini pictures, but I also want them to get to know who I am.

Clothes are not so much about who you are as who you want to be.

The thing about Hitchcock which is quite extraordinary for a director of that time, he had a very strong sense of his own image and publicizing himself. Just a very strong sense of himself as the character of Hitchcock.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

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

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.