Quotes About Image

I look good, but I probably have the insides of Elvis.

There are times even I am a bit embarrassed by my look.

I'm not embarrassed to be in advertising. But I'm embarrassed by a lot of advertising.

It's very hard to imagine anybody being president when the stuff that's written about them is empty of who they are.

Every day, we all make the critical decision of what we're going to wear, because many of the people we encounter in a day don't get to know anything more about us than how we present ourselves. That decision - totally on our own terms - is a powerful one.

I don't consider myself an image-driven actor. I believe audiences come to watch my films because they are entertaining and not because of my image.

It is very important to look good in the entertainment industry.

For so long I felt like I needed to be 18, 19, 20 years old because that's what the entertainment industry tells you.

I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often - dull.

Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

I don't want to be seen in every second film. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh no, she's in this one too.'

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

Al borde de la vida el miedo nos hace crear una imagen salvadora y esa imagen es lo que llamamos Dios

That's what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That's what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

I make it a point to look as healthy and attractive as I can at all times," Boylan had explained to Rudolph. "Even if I don't see anybody for weeks on end. It's a form of self-respect.

You're a good model for a German soldier, except for the hair. You look as though you once had a thought in your head and that's hard to find.

Public speaking is only bad if your clothes don't fit correctly.

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

And at the bottom of each of those eyes I lived, or rather another me lived, one of the images of me, and it encountered the image of her, the most faithful image of her, in that beyound which opens, past the semiliquid sphere of the irises, in the darkness of the pupils, the mirrored hall of retinas, in our true element which extends without shores, without boundaries.

It is my image that I want to multiply, but not out of narcissism or megalomania, as could all too easily be believed: on the contrary, I want to conceal, in the midst of so many illusory ghosts of myself, the true me, who makes them move.

Creating a space and time for reflection and imagination and study presupposes an accumulation of wealth, and behind every accumulation of wealth there are obscure lives subject to labour and sacrifices and oppression without any hope. Every project or image that allows us to to reach out towards another way of being outside the injustice that surrounds us carries the mark of the injustice without which it could not have been conceived.

The only contact we could have with the void was through this little the void had produced as quintessence of its own emptiness; the only image we had of the void was our own poor universe. All the void we would ever know was there, in the relativity of what is, for even the void had been no more than a relative void,a void secretly shot with veins and temptations to be something, given that in a moment of crisis at its own nothingness it had been able to give rise to the universe.

Il passato (proprio per il fatto d'avere un'immagine così compiuta nella quale non si poteva pensare di cambiar nulla come in quel dormitorio) gli pareva una gran trappola. E il futuro, quando ci se ne fa un'immagine (cioè lo si annette al passato), diventava una trappola esso pure.

Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.