Peter Morgan Quotes

My public image is none of my business.

You have to have an overall vision of how you want people to see you.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it. Maybe things would have gone differently for me in some ways if I had.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

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

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

Actually, the original nickname that I was told - it scared me to death - was Heavy G. I think the last thing you want to be known as is Heavy anything. No offense to Heavy D - rest his soul. Worked for him, wasn't really my bag.

I'm very aware of my image and the perception of me.

I actually don't consider myself that private. I know that's how I've been characterized. That's OK.

Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.

In terms of what people think about me, the truth of the matter is, I guess I care to a certain extent, but not enough to try to go out in the public and plead for some kind of new understanding of me.

I've never been able to control my public image.

The thing about Hitchcock which is quite extraordinary for a director of that time, he had a very strong sense of his own image and publicizing himself. Just a very strong sense of himself as the character of Hitchcock.

Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

I never have thought of myself as a brand. I've thought of myself as an artist.

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.