Quotes About Image

I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.

There's always a temptation to get in front of the camera. It's part of my personality.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

I basically believe that all pop stars create personas and manipulate them. What we relate to are not their real selves; they are projections, which tend to shift in shape.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the techniques by which we study him.

I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.

Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.

I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

When I was starting out with record companies, there was a tendency to simplify the image as a prodigy. I have more than one adjective, and I've always tried to be myself and listen to my instincts.

The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn't look good and tends to ruin your hair.

Modeling is also the first job I've ever had where it's my job to love myself. While many people think that modeling would chip away at your self-esteem, it's actually bolstered mine tenfold.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

People ask me, 'Are you the tennis player?' They don't treat me like a movie star. If you are a movie star, people go crazy. They don't go crazy around me.

It's not as if I never used to get under pressure. That is nonsense. It's just that my looks gave an appearance, and people didn't think I was tense.

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

When beautiful movie stars allow themselves to look terrible, people think they're really acting.

I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.