Quotes About Public image

When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me.

Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.

You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I've enjoyed that.

for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

I don't like the way I ever appear on TV.

It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.

I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.

Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.

I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.