Quotes About Public image

I think I have a reputation for being really serious. In interviews I use big words, but I'm just an emotional goofball. I play practical jokes all the time.

All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.

I wear no makeup in real life. I'm very simple. That may be why I go over the top for the red carpet. But otherwise, I'm very plain. I should make more of an effort, actually.

Because celebrities' lives are so visible, I think it makes it look lighter than it is.

I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.

People just - they don't really know me. They see me on "The Simple Life," they think that's really who I am.

Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.

Anyone who's lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.

I have to talk about my movies. I have to give interviews to promote what I'm doing. But no one really knows my personal life. And if you don't have a personal life I feel bad for you.

I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that.

I'm obviously not going to give you everything about my whole life, but as far as my personality, you see me all the time from watching the games.

I'm not trying to have my whole life out there in the media.

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.

As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.

In politics you learn to always smile.

People who are placed on a pedestal are expected to pose, perfectly. Then they get knocked off when they fuck it up. I regularly fuck it up. Consider me already knocked off. —Roxane Gay

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

The rap on Obama has been that he is a little too cool and aloof. The rap on Romney may be that he is just plain callous.

Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas.

I think hip-hop brought it on itself. When rappers got a chance to talk to the media, they would get in the interview and say, 'It's all real life.' They play these characters, and then they can't stop playing the character when they're not working.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

People have seen me on-field, but no one knows about my off-field life. People rarely know that personality of me.