Quotes About Image

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

And the thing is... life can be interpreted many ways. The way you carry yourself determines how it reflects in the eyes of others.

Behavior is like a mirror in which everyone displays his own image...always try to build your respectable image because reflection can't be changed by changing a mirror.

A sign of growing old is when interviewers start asking you,What would you do differently if you had your life to live over again? I give some sort of answer because I dont wish to be rude, but I dont tell them the image that comes into my mind because they would think it vain and frivolous, and no one wants to be a subject for ridicule. I see myself as a tall, skinny Fellini, vigorously lifting weights. Thats what I would do differently. I would lift weights.

Be stylish but look simple, be tough but look soft, be a failure but look perfect, be a beginner but look like a winner that's the style of life ..

I felt that, if I had taken some photographs of Bloch against the background of Mme de Villeparisis's salon, they would have produced an image of Israel like the images in spirit photographs—so disturbing because they do not appear to emanate from humanity, so disappointing because they nonetheless resemble humanity too closely.

the memory of a certain image is only regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.

The difference in the making of these sorts of sorrows is that they come from the outside world and take the shortest and most painful route to the heart. The image of the woman we love, though we think it has a pristine authenticity, has actually been often made and remade by us. And the memory that wounds is not contemporaneous with the restored image; it dates from a very different time; it is one of the few witnesses to a monstrous past.

Every time we are assailed by images of women very different from ourselves, unless these images are eliminated by being forgotten or overlaid by others, we can have no peace of mind until we have converted these strangers into something more like us, the self in that respect being similar in its action and reactions to the physical organism, which is incapable of accepting a foreign body within itself without immediately setting to work to digest and assimilate the intruder.

As for our feelings, we need hardly repeat that love is often only the association between the image of a girl (of whom otherwise we would very quickly have tired) and the increased heart rate inseparable from a long, futile wait when the young lady in question has "stood us up.

Being attractive matters everywhere—getting jobs, getting laid, and yes, getting acquitted by a jury of your peers. No one can resist a pretty face. As long as it's not too pretty. Back

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

Look at you—instead of being dressed for success, you're dressed to depress.

Shall I say of you that you worship the image of your God that you have in your mind, but not your God?

the image of the Good Life long ago stamped on her soul was quite different from this, and she suffered in contrast.

Rather than accepting that we are the loving beings that He created, we have arrogantly thought that we could create ourselves, and then create God. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him. We have made up a God in our image. But God remains who He is and always has been: the energy, the thought of unconditional love.