Quotes About Public image

We pass for what we are.

It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

How do you expect to keep our seeing each other a secret? You've been all over the news here for years. People will recognize you wherever you go. I won't be recognized, but you will. You're America's corporate sex symbol; you're the one whose motto is If it moves, take it to bed. Matt and Meredith

That's why I'll never run for office. Because you have to be too clean. I am not clean. I've had a lot of mud. Forget the skeletons, I've got the mud. And, know what? I don't want to have to explain me to anybody.

Historian Daniel Boorstin once noted a shift in American values that had replaced the classic hero with the celebrity. "The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image. . . . The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media." He added, darkly: "The very agency which first makes the celebrity in the long run inevitably destroys him. He will be destroyed, as he was made, by publicity.

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

Celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content.

By privately endorsing Seward's spirit of compromise while projecting an unyielding public image, President-elect Lincoln retained an astonishing degree of control over an increasingly chaotic and potentially devastating situation.

I suppose I saw photos of him in the papers, but I wouldn't recognize my own mother when a press photographer had done with her.

If you go on stage, or on TV, then there is an impetus that comes about to be a persona. A completely different character. But when you're someone like me, you don't want to have a persona. I want to be exactly who I am on stage.

When I went on 'The Hills,' I never showed my personal life. It was always about my career life - I thought people could take me seriously because they'd see I'm a hard-working girl. Then when I chose to do 'The City,' I took the next step to show my personal life.

In my personal life, I was quite a different Boy Next Door than the one Mr. and Mrs. Middle America imagined me to be.

I want my work to make news and not my personal life.

When I avoided interviews, it was mainly because I didn't want to speak only about my personal life.

Every celebrity has his or her own personal life. When they go home, they have problems and issues, too.

Because of television, people are now more exposed about actors - one gets to know about actor's personal life. People know that we are just playing characters.

I'm not an actor. I'm a personality.

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

When you see me on TV, that's about as close to my real personality as you can get.

When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.