Quotes About Image

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.

The life of a working model in L.A. kind of sucks.

Actually, I look the same in real life as I do in the movies.

All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.

Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life.

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

The need to project an image of power at the expense of one's true feelings is characteristic of narcissistic personalities.

Propaganda mainly tells us that Bernays's true métier was to help giant players with their various sales and image problems.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

Being created in the image and likeness of this Trinidadian God suggests that we're made to live like him — to live in relationship and to live a life of self-giving love. Written in the fabric of our being is this law of self-giving. This is what we're made for. Only when we give ourselves in love to God and others will we find our happiness.

In the Bible, being made in tbe image of someone else implies a father-and-son relationship. In fact, the next time this word is used in Genesis, it describes tbe relationship between Adam and his own son, Seth: Adam "became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth" (Gn 5:3).

With her curling blond hair and her slender limbs and her beautiful clothes, Inez was alluring in an obvious way, and yet it was easy enough to see that her slightly protruding blue eyes were blank screens of self-love on which a small selection of fake emotions was allowed to flicker.

Self-denial mostly executes a tricky way, for self-presentation, as an authentic personality.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.

authority is a patina and at times it doesn't take much to crack it, if only for a few minutes, and glimpse a less edifying person.

Aquí estoy, sentado sobre esta piedra aparente. Solo mi memoria sabe lo que encierra. La veo y me recuerdo, y como el agua va al agua, así yo, melancólico, vengo a encontrarme en su imagen cubierta por el polvo, rodeada por las hierbas, encerrada en sí misma y condenada a la memoria y a su variado espejo. La veo, me veo y me transfiguro en multitud de colores y de tiempos. Estoy y estuve en muchos ojos. Yo solo soy memoria y la memoria que de mí se tenga.

The body she inhabited during the day was not hers but rather a reflection from other people's eyes.

To conceive of a god in one's image is already quite a feat for inflated egos. To imagine, however, that this likeness has chosen your generation amongst the thousands for ending the party is to bring the egocentrism to new heights.

Through the persona we codify ourselves in a form which we hope will prove acceptable to others.