Shaunie O'Neal Quotes

I enjoy being myself on television, where I am not enacting a character.

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

I want to represent my name to the fullest: Ginuwine.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

I want people to get a better sense of who I am, whether they've seen every video or zero videos.

It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

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

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

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

People don't need to necessarily see me in the jersey to understand who I am and what message I'm trying to get across with the things that I'm marketing.

I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

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.

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

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

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.