Quotes About Identity

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.

I don't think there is a single character in 'The Graduate' that is not a phony, to one degree or another, except Benjamin and Elaine, and only in the scenes when they are alone together.

You don't want to come in and be phony and be someone you're not.

I need a little more 'Jersey Shore' in me, I guess. It's just not who I am. It would almost be phony at this point.

When you're riding around with the fellas, you want to listen to something real masculine, like 'Boyz-in-the-Hood.' How would it look riding around and listening to something wimpy like 'I Need Love' or that phony stuff Jazzy Jeff does?

My real name is Julie Tawny Kitaen. I know it sounds phony but it isn't.

I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and get scared when I have to take them off for photo shoots. The ring is my mum's mum's mum's, and she gave it to me for my 18th birthday. The necklace is the same one that my sister has. She's called Hannah, and the name is the chain.

I love experimenting with clothes for photo shoots, but when I'm onstage, I want to show people that there are other options. You can just be yourself and still make good music.

Fashion is a huge part of music and of who you are. It really sets the mood for a show, and it's fun to play around with it. You can get really creative in photo shoots as well. You know, just having fun with it.

If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can't believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl.

I like seeing how I can look in a photo.

I personally have gone to photo shoots and see the pictures afterwards, and I don't look like me because I'm just so airbrushed and so, kind of, fake and almost plastic-looking, you know?

I don't think most people decide to become an actor because they want to be followed around all the time... I see it when I'm with my brothers, and I don't get it. I don't understand why someone wants to take a photo of us getting out of a car or on the beach. I think that's really weird.

I find it funny to look at people who are people-watching, and, don't get me wrong, I like to people-watch, too. But it's an interesting thing when people on the street just stop and ask you, 'Are you Coco? Can I take a photo of you?'

It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.

My photo has nothing to do with the person I am, the dreams I have, the family I want to build, the family I'm from.

Some people are made to be famous and do photo shoots, but I'm not one of them. I'm more comfortable in the library!

I started having anxiety attacks and panic attacks. I would cry myself to sleep every night and wish I could go back in time and get my life back and be a human again instead of a photo op.

I'm not like 'Oh I am going to be so mobbed today and everyone is going to take my photo.' I don't see myself like that.

When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.

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.

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.