Quotes About Public image

My wife says that if people reach conclusions as to what I am like based on what they see from me on the pitch they would say I am a guy who is always annoyed, always in a bad mood, they'd say what must it be like to live with me. There are two of me, two different people.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are.

Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.

I feel, we actors are out there a lot, and people are hell bent on trying to create perceptions of our lives. We tend to influence people through our lifestyles or mannerisms. It is important that we be honest about our emotions.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

We tend to think of our idols as kind of superheroes; maybe less so today, given that people have a tendency to overshare on social media, but when I was growing up, all you knew about these people was what they allowed you to see - which was them doing superhuman things, up on stage in an arena with all these people going crazy.

I am a very honest, open person and I think there is a tendency in celebrity autobiographies to gloss over certain things which have happened.

When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

People ask me, 'Are you the tennis player?' They don't treat me like a movie star. If you are a movie star, people go crazy. They don't go crazy around me.

Obama's tenure had more dirty linen then Charlie Sheen's hamper.

The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.

When I founded Media Matters, there was another model, which would have been to call this the Brock Report. But I was much less interested in my own profile by that point, because I had already done that once, and it was not terribly fulfilling at the end of the day.

I'm actually just a terrible husband and a terrific exec producer. We just actually stay together for our careers. We look to the Clintons.

I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

Dinosaurs have a bad public image as symbols of obsolescence and hulking inefficiency; in political cartoons they are know-nothing conservatives that plod through miasmic swamps to inevitable extinction.

The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.

Cartoonists stereotyped Rockefeller as a churchgoing hypocrite.

People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.

Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.

And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.