Quotes About Public image

When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.

If you want to be a national brand, damn act like it.

I don't think anyone likes to see a picture of themselves in a tabloid, besides a couple people who I'm not going to mention. I'm definitely not one of those people.

Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.

There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.

I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.

I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

I don't think I'm all that interesting. I mean, I'm a guy who does a morning show and goes to bed at 9:00 every night. I mean, I don't have a lot in my life that's really fascinated or fodder for tabloids.

I am not comfortable at all with this tag of being dubbed 'the richest Indian' and all the attention that follows for the reason.

I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.

I was putting everything into trying to convince everyone I was me. Before entering a room, I'd take a deep breath and say to myself: 'How would Frankie from The Saturdays behave?' I'd be louder, bubblier, happier.

A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things.

I'm a proud filmmaker, but everyone seems to have forgotten that. You're introduced, and someone will say, 'Arrey! Karan Johar! He does talk shows! He's judge!' And now my filmmaking has been lost, all my other accomplishments forgotten.

They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

How do I play the princess thing? I don't, really. I don't like talking about it much and find it annoying when people say things like, 'Oh, you're the princess.' One of my best friends jokingly says, 'Hi, Princess,' and I say, 'Shut up.' It is one of the things that bugs me most in the world.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.

Talking to the press is not always good.

I think the fact that we don't usually see 'normal' sized women on television has something to do with the reaction I had. I am quite tall - I am 5ft 8in and a definite size 12 - but you know this whole debate about my revealing too much flesh on TV has been blown out of proportion.

The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a constant process of adjusting our public image. We fear so deeply what we think other people see in us that we talk in order to straighten out their understanding.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.