Quotes About Image

I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.

I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another.

I'm very open in terms of sharing bits about my life, but I think it's very easy to get a distorted sense of who anyone is through social media.

Because celebrities' lives are so visible, I think it makes it look lighter than it is.

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth listening to.

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

The official bio is the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your entire life.

I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.

God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.

I'm obviously not going to give you everything about my whole life, but as far as my personality, you see me all the time from watching the games.

If I'm a secure person, my online persona is going to be pretty similar to the person that I am. If I'm insecure, my online persona is probably very different from who I am in real life.

I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.

Apparently we're now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat us up down to our toes if it happened in real life, and we don't think anything of it.

As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.