Quotes About Image

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

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

I think, British food, it's had a bad rap.

You gotta do a lot more than rap. Rap is not just rap. If you don't have an image, you're not capturing nobody's attention.

The perpetuation of gangster rap has really put a negative image on the city of Compton... So I look forward to addressing that image, changing it and making it more accurate.

I don't know where these rap guys get off trying to act so hard.

It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.

I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a long time. She's funny and created an image for herself that was non-sexualized but was really interesting and really cool and really kind of avant-garde in a lot of ways.

Los Angeles gets a very bad rap, the perception, especially by us Brits, is 'Oh, it's so fake,' but it's the antithesis!

I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.

If you a rapper, attention can turn into money.

If we met today and you had no idea who I was, you'd just think I was a normal guy. You wouldn't think I'm a rapper.

Whatever rappers wear is cool to people.

A lot of rappers lie about who and what they are.

Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas.

You can't even tell, but a lot of the time your favourite rappers are wearing a bunch of fake jewellery.

Everybody knows rappers don't do all they say they do.

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

It's rare in the NBA, but I have a lot of young female fans from eight to eighteen because of the way I dress and the way I do my hair. People sometimes call me a pretty boy, but I embrace it. It's fun, and I guess it just kind of comes with being a good looking white guy in the league.

I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.'

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.

If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do its job immediately, before an audience has been properly conditioned.

The worst time was in 1985 when house prices crashed and interest rates went up to 14 percent. I was not winning on the snooker table and I had this big image to keep up - and a lifestyle where I lived beyond my means.