Quotes About Image

Lots of people said that I have been a comic actor for such a long time, but as a director I was very serious.

There is such a thing as bad publicity.

Our Bollywood industry works in such a way that when an actor is seen in a gangster's role, he is offered similar roles.

Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.

You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.

Paulina Porizkova

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.

If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!

I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I've lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time?

I have one little pooch-y stomach in a picture, and all of a sudden I'm pregnant.

We didn't roll credits after 'Monday Night Raw.' You know, it didn't say, 'Stone Cold Steve Austin played by Steve Austin,' so all of a sudden people think that's who and what you are 24/7, you know, 365 days a year.

Just because I'm confident and will tell you that I'm awesome and that I'm great, I'm all of the sudden the bad guy? Why am I always the bad guy?

A lot of times, I'd be styled and, like, wearing a t-shirt I wouldn't ever wear. All the sudden, there's this image of you, and you're like, 'Hold on, wait.'

All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate.

It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.

If the press see you looking normal they can suddenly be 'oh, she's got a spot on her face, she's having a bad day'. That can be quite cruel.

As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

I don't think I am an icon. My team works hard on my look; I just wear what they suggest.

You've got to make sure that you don't have an airbrushed picture making you look like a 15-year-old cherub when your lyrics suggest otherwise.