Quotes About Image

Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished - if you were a guy with a nice pair of jeans, a big belt buckle and nice hat, you were country.

Every Motown act dressed classy, and we were clean-cut. Whenever you saw a Motown act, they were polished, and they knew how to treat people.

I know that some people view me as a bit manufactured. But I can't be Whitney Houston: somebody who is polite and perfect and appeals to your mother and your grandfather.

At first, you can play into the naivete that people think you have because you don't dress well. They almost give you the benefit of the doubt. But when success comes, that's no longer a good angle, so now you're 'a political animal.'

The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation... They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader.

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.

Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.

I'm an entertainer, not a politician.

I do not purport to be a professional politician.

I am a politician but I am also an actress and you do need glamour in politics.

My seriousness as a politician will be seen from what I speak from a political stage and say in press conferences. If my comic flavor shows there, I cannot be taken as a serious politician.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona they choose is worse than their own.

As far as I'm concerned, all politicians are fake people.

Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.

Most politicians are not authentic.

Obama does look good, but he could look better. The most important thing for politicians is to keep their clothes really simple and make sure their clothing actually fits.

Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.

Politics is a lot like acting. You have to be on all the time.

It seems the more shallow and mean the candidates are the more they rise in the polls.

For my own poor part, I go to great lengths to keep my nostrils sightly.

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.