Quotes About Image

I don't believe you can buy or sell 'cool.'

At the end of the day, even if you are cooler than Obama, the media will never let you be cooler.

I don't need to do or say things to place me in a position where I look a bit cooler.

I want to be strong enough to cope with the roles, but I don't want to be cast as the guy that takes his shirt off.

At work, you want to stand out but not in extra-funky ways. At the core, it's about dressing for girls - who are most of my fans - and you want to dress up for them. You just want to feel like you're on top of your game.

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

I feel like I always touch my hair all the time so I'm always correcting it.

There's a direct correlation between media and how we feel about our bodies.

You can't kid the public. When they see me they see I'm just a kid off a council estate - no more, no less.

My whole relationship with Bowie started when I was 13, and I bought a copy of 'Aladdin Sane' when I didn't have a record player. I had this record for a year before I could play it, and it was the image - not the sound - that I was attracted to. I just saw this image and thought he was my cousin.

When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.

I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.

One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.

I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.

The thing I simply hate about my job is any 'celeb' coverage.

There's an attention paid to the fame - the sort of sheath that's on you, this sort of cloud that's covering over you - and that's what people want to touch. It's not even really you that they want to touch.

I don't like glossy covers.

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time.

Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.

A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

It's all very well setting up your own brand of face cream or exercise wear - but Christ, it's so shallow.

And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.