Quotes About Image

I didn't want to be a hero and get into the mould but the film industry doesn't work like that. It has a habit of branding you in a specific image to market you easily.

When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

When I grew up, a director was Cecil B DeMille, a guy sitting down with a megaphone speaking. He was the voice of God, the image of God. When I went to start making docs, I quickly turned the megaphone to my ear not to my mouth. It's more about funneling in the words and listening as doc filmmaker.

I just played one of the bad guys in Hercules 3D, and I had cornrows. People moved away from me in elevators, that's for sure. I wore them for about three months. After a while, they get a little gnarly, and you have to redo them.

A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.

I think being a rock star is a little bit different than being an athlete or even a movie star.

Tamil people are generally considered very intelligent. But there, politics runs in a different way. Movie stars have a larger-than-life image in Tamil Nadu, and people vote for that image.

Maybe this was my luck that I was in Munich the only one with a look like this, the only one with an image like this. But in the States, there is a lot of more competition.

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

If you do a character that resonates enough, people are always going to see you as that character. It will just be up to me to make choices where I can flex other muscles.

I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.

You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

The music industry is a very rough industry. Many years ago, I think it was even rougher in the sense that a lot of it was predicated on image.

With Milli Vanilli, we felt more like bimbos, the bimbos of the music industry, and we didn't want to be the bimbos anymore.

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.

A lot of musicians put diamonds on things to show they had money. I on the other had felt that Daytona showed I had style and I didn't need to be flashy.

They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.

Somebody's trying to sell you a Mercedes and he pulls up in a Civic with mustard stains on his shirt, dipping a pretzel in some cheese? Nobody wants to hear what you say unless you look like somebody.

Google is not my friend. I've been way too open in my career. Google has killed any shot I have on the dating apps.

I will never apologize for selective editing to make myself look better.