Quotes About Image

In the characters that I play, I'm so involved in the look; it's very, very important to me. Because how a person presents him or herself to the world, they're saying something about themselves. It's their first form of advertisement.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

I've worked with some people and they turn, they become that image on TV and they're lost in it, lost in who they are. It scares me. I want to stay me, preserve my soul.

I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.

President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful as a politician.

I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll.

Any press is good press.

I'm not that great with press sometimes.

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

I don't understand why guys want to be controversial and in the press all the time. It's just not my nature.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

There's such an emphasis on people being the perfect thing and then destroying them because it's good press.

And certainly don't get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing.

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

I've grown up in the press my entire life.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.

There's a pressure to conform to particular images, and it feels a pretty exclusive pool of body image or facial image that is considered appealing. And in a way, that feels like pre-judging what an audience might actually want.

Celebrities are under pressure to perform all the time. You are in front of a camera all the time, and it is difficult to lead a life in the world of glamour.