Quotes About Image

Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion.

As time passes, the actual complexity of our history - even of our own personal experience - gets buried under the weight of the ideal image.

A lot of the time, people think I have a high opinion of myself when I really don't.

Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.

I don't spend much time reading our own press.

Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.

It's normal that people have a distorted image of Cristiano because the press nowadays focus more on the issues off the pitch. But Cristiano is very professional. He is very focused on his football and he follows the timetable exactly. He is a humble man, despite of all his surroundings. He doesn't lose sight of the fact that he's from Madeira.

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.

People always remark on how I'm not as tall as I look in film. I tell them about the time I saw Lassie on a studio lot, and she was this tiny scruffy dog. Film makes you larger than life.

London cabs always dis me. I purposefully give them a good tip because I'm trying to straighten up the image where they don't want to pick up some shady-looking, bummy kid like myself. I'm trying to teach them that if you pick up the bummy-looking kid, you still get tipped, man. But they still jerk me around.

All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.

As a Fox News Channel contributor, I've learned most of the tips over the years: look into the camera like it's a good friend; pull your suit jacket down and sit on it so it doesn't bunch up; and most importantly, never, ever say anything while sitting in that studio that you wouldn't want someone else to hear.

I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it's so rich in texture that my eyes actually get tired. Everything is in focus down to the littlest leaf.

There it is again. Image. Once again. I get really tired of it quick.

I'm tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes... the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky.

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

I was asked once if I ever got tired of playing bimbos, and I answered that I've never played a bimbo. I've always played smart, manipulative women. Marilyn Monroe and Judy Holliday, who were not stupid, could play stupid really well, but I don't do it well.

I stay away from the title of 'role model.' I want to be a more realistic role model - not a perfect Barbie role model.

The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.

While MIT and the University of Chicago duke it out for the title of nerdiest school, James Franco and Renee Zellweger show up at Harvard to party. Somehow, miracle of miracles, Harvard is 'cool.'

I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.

You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.'