Quotes About Image

You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.

I'm out there to be real, and I think people respond to that. If you have some image that you're protecting, eventually people get sick of it, and I can't imagine living that way for an entire lifetime. I'd rather just be who I am, and that's good enough.

The general public may not have an understanding about me and what I do, how I feel about my children, how I feel about my family, how protective I am over my family and children. They just see a big guy in a cage that fights, that knocks people out or this and that.

I'm never what anybody envisions as the prototype of a character. My looks are just odd enough so that I'm just not what people think of.

Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

a great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain

His desire re-created her until she lost all vestiges of the old Jenny, even the girl who had met him at the train that morning. Silently, as the night hours went by, he molded her over into an image of love - an image that would endure as long as love itself, or even longer - not to perish till he could say, 'I never really loved her.

Rosalind: Cecelia, darling, you don't know what a trial it is to be like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me. If I laugh hard from a front row in the theatre, the comedian plays to me for the rest of the evening. If I drop my voice, my eyes, my handkerchief at a dance, my partner calls me up on the phone every day for a week.

He got the reputation for being a good musician because he drank so much that his friends had to explain him away somehow--

Show the politicians a picture of a rat, and they immediately identify.

El hacerse de reputación, pues, es arte que requiere tramoya y bambalinas.

The circumstances of his life were marked by that strange but rather common phenomenon – perhaps, in fact, it's true for all lives – of being tailored to the image and likeness of his instincts, which tended towards inertia and withdrawal.

What elaborate misconceptions form other people's understanding of us!

As She Passes When I am sitting at the window, Through the panes, which the snow blurs, I see the lovely images, hers, as She passes ... passes ... passes by ... Over me grief has thrown its veil:- Less a creature in this world And one more angel in the sky. When I am sitting at the window, Through the panes, which the snow blurs, I think I see the image, hers, That's not now passing ... not passing by ...

I view Che, furthermore, as a moral giant who grows day by day, whose image, whose strength, whose influence has multiplied throughout the world. How could he fit below a tombstone? How could he fit in this plaza? How could he fit solely in our beloved but small island? Only the world he dreamed of, which he lived and fought for, is big enough for him.

Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

I think it's healthy to see a President be a family man.

Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.

The guys that drive Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Bentley GTs, it's because they want to flaunt the fancy car and get the girls and stuff.

Wish I had a PR team. That sounds very fancy.

When I'm in a bar I need to be the coolest one that can drink more than anyone else and I need the girls to fancy me.