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I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.

— Drew Barrymore

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me!

— Richard P. Feynman

People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

— Ruth Negga

I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.

— Juliana Hatfield

That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

— Zoe Kravitz

I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.

— Jay-Z

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

— Andrew Lincoln

I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there.

— Nicki Minaj

I'm not hiding who I am anymore - not pretending I'm something I'm not.

— Blake McIver Ewing

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

— Al Stewart

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