Georgia Toffolo Quotes

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That's fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don't really share.

People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

The way I'm portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it's partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I'm digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.

I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.

I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.

I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

There's stigmas attached to anything that makes you, in the public's eye, seem weak. So of course, you know, you're in a business where your image, and the way people perceive you, you are taught, is important.

I'm not an actress, I'm a girl who was on reality TV.

I knew I had to be the gay stereotype that was on the front of the papers every day. And I did my job well. I played the game.

I suppose when some people see you on TV, they expect you to be this flamboyant, champagne-drinking stud. But I'm not like that.

I joke that I reached the bimbo trifecta when I came to Fox News! In being a former Miss America, being blonde and then Fox.

A lot of people had misconceptions that I throw tantrums and am very arrogant, and I knew 'Bigg Boss' will change that. You cannot pretend for 105 days in front of more than 100 cameras. I know myself, and I was confident that the world will also get to know and understand me through this show.

The media had built my perception of being a strong woman because of my personal life. I wanted to play the damsel in distress, but I wasn't given an opportunity to explore that kind of a character.

Bappi Lahiri has an image that the public wants to see.

From being on a panel show, they always need the blonde airhead sat in a corner they can make fun of, and I'm here to go, 'No, we're not the punchline.'

Everything about the Kardashian family's public image centers around shock and dysfunction - the very image the trans people are trying to shed.

Growing up, it was hard to associate with some of the women who were being portrayed in the media.

I don't think I look like I do on the telly.

I think it's strange for people to read about themselves, no matter what's portrayed or how it's portrayed. But they get used to it, and I think they're fine with it.

I know people think I'm a stupid little street queen out there begging for change cause there's nothing else she knows how to do.

When people think what is the most simple sort of human, it's a white man, and anything else that is added to that complicates it for people. It comes with all kinds of meanings and connotations. If they have a different skin color, that comes with a connotation. If they're a woman, 'Oh well, what do I feel about that?'

I'm quite cool about my sex symbol image. It's nothing to be proud of or ashamed of.

I've never had any resentment about being a reality TV star.