Quotes About Public image

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

Kate Middleton's a pretty girl who sounds nice.

My reality is the misconceptions about me.

I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really exist. Things are actually fairly simple.

There are a million misconceptions about me but the greatest is probably that people think I'm the king of disco. I love disco but it is only one part of me.

This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.

I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.

People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.

A lot of NFL guys are misunderstood.

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

So many models have cool boyfriends.

I don't think most rock stars are particularly calculating. I don't think they sit there and think, 'I will do this; therefore, on Monday, I will sell another 200,000 records'.

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

People with big names aren't always big people.

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

Q&As covered my fave color (purple), my fave shows (Family Ties and Cosby), my height (5? 7?), weight (130 pounds) and eye color (hazel). They also printed false information. One said my parents were a psychologist and a newspaper reporter. Sure, my television parents held those careers—my real parents were a math/P.E. teacher and a housewife/manager (of me). I was supposed to be the coolest kid on the planet, but no one knew what a dork I was.

Oprah had come a long way from the days when she, too, loved to shock her audiences. But she no longer wanted to be seen as a vulgarian, hosting shows for nudists and shouting 'penis, penis, penis.

Given all this, we can see why the foul-mouthed politician has supplanted the polite and reserved one, because in a world where the inner voice is key to the real person, the former is authentic while the latter presents a public image likely at odds with his private behavior.

The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.

With each post or tweet, we choose what to keep private and what to make public, what face to show the world and what to keep buried. It is a kind of deception, and we have become reality stars, every one of us.

One of the luxuries of a politican's life is that you see yourself as others see you.