Quotes About Public image

Next to financial impropriety, being charged with a reckless pursuit of women is certainly the most damaging thing you can accuse a public person of.

When you are a public personality, you can't afford to be a recluse.

I get recognised, but I'm not the sort of person who frequents popular clubs. I try to keep out of that.

I have always kept in mind that I come from a family that is recognizable in public. I have to act responsibly all the times.

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

I always say as a celebrity you have two choices - you can be a celebrity, or you can be a role model. You can choose to just go to parties and do the red carpets and all that, or you can choose to be an example to these people.

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.

They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.

The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.

As much as we love an excuse to dress up, the red carpet is not the place.

I have nothing to do with Greg Hardy.

There's nobody, possibly, who could have hated 'Octomom' more than I.

For some reason, I'm the guy people love to hate, which I think is weird. People who know me find that very strange, but for some reason, I am. I don't mind being that guy - I have fun with it.

You certainly don't want to market the president as if he or she were a box of breakfast cereal.

When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.'

When I dont have work to talk about, I dont need to be in the headlines.

I want to show people how I really am. Most people are only familiar with some of the headlines.

I think for so long I've hidden. I think actually now I'm in the limelight, I don't want everyone who follows me to think I'm perfect.

I think fame is harder when people have something to hide, but I'm very comfortable, and have nothing to hide.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

Look, the term 'high-profile relationship' for us is laughable because we are probably the biggest scrubs when it comes to the way we live our lives.