Polly Adler Quotes

I do make lots of spelling mistakes still - for a time, the word 'corporate' on my website was spelled 'corprate.' But I'm not embarrassed. The way I see it, it is part of me. The key is to become completely confident about it.

I'm not trying to clean my image to make anyone happy.

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word.

It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.

I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.

I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.

I'm 'That Guy.' That's what most people call me, and I'm fine with that.

People see us as no better than we are.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you're viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it and tell me if there's something, and that keeps you focused. I know my family and me well enough; why do I need to read about myself? I'm not going to change, I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.

I think what happened is I learned my strengths, but more importantly, I learned to embrace my weaknesses.

I would like more people to think good things about me, but if they never do, they never do.

You can focus on the few things that give people a negative image about me, or you can see the other things I've done, or talk to people in my inner circle who know more about who I really am.

People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.

I want people to know who the real Shilpa is. There's a lot of negative idea about me in the industry, and I want to prove all of it wrong.

Since I was younger, I've always had the same body. Older guys would always be like, 'Oh you a stallion.' I finally had to ask, like, is that a good thing? Everybody pretty much took it and ran with it, and then I put it as my main name on Twitter. Ever since then everybody's just been calling me Stallion.

I'm very cautious of how I'm presented and my type of reputation.

People around me tell me that I need a bigger persona and to act a little more A-listy because 'that's where you are but you don't act that way, so people undervalue you.' But that's not me.

People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.

I deplore my shortcomings, but plan to keep them.