Quotes About Image

When the image that I built around the first album was crumbling, it was scary: the risk pays off, but the resonances of that risk are not always easy to deal with.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

People treat us and they put us on this pedestal like we're so much better human beings than them because we play a professional sport.

I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way.

People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.

A lot of people say I am serious, but I don't think I am.

I like clothes and fashion. It's a hobby for me and I really enjoy being part of it, so it's nice when people say: 'He can dress quite well.'

Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.

When people start to perceive you as the big guy, you're not allowed to be scrappy, fierce.

People seem to think that I'm not aware of how people perceive me. But I'm the one that has to talk about 'Police Academy' all day long 27 years later. I'm totally aware of it.

How you carry yourself is how people perceive you.

I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.

We do the press because we know logically it influences how we are perceived, but we don't pay attention to it after the fact.

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

I've always had faith in my ring ability, but sometimes it's how you are perceived, and how good you are doesn't matter.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

We all felt very passionate about what we wanted to do and how we wanted to be perceived by our fans and by the media.

Not that I am hugely working class, but in the U.K. I'm always perceived, casting-wise, as being working class.