Quotes About Public image

You might say presidents are drafting the first chapter of their memoirs in these seventh-year State of the Union addresses. They're trying to get the public and the media to think about their presidencies in the way that they would like to have them thought of.

Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.

Unless cameras were rolling, I was pretty much not Danny Tanner.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wanted to be part of.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.

There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect.

Being a star is not a job, and that's really important for me say.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.

There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.

I think that every boxer should understand he's on the pedestal for a short span. It's best that you use boxing and don't let boxing use you. Use boxing to sell, because people are selling you through your boxing career, so you have to learn to sell yourself, and you'll never starve.

People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really.

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

Stepping out of the spotlight when it's prudent to do so is a good thing.