Jimmy Rushing Quotes

I think that we all desperately try to fit in to different molds: our parents, our bosses, our partners, social status, friends. We all figure out a look that we think will get us the job or make his parents approve of us or get that girl to want to go on a date, whatever. We all change ourselves to please whoever it is.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

I think people always thought I was more of a Guido than I am.

Sometimes you fall into the niche of being the confidant guy, or the good-looking guy, or being too charactery, or not charactery enough.

I don't know that any of us can control our own image. We are what other people see.

I wanted to try and get out of the stereotypical Geordie girl. I stopped wearing fake tan and wore WAG dresses. But I was really miserable.

People have their image of you or their ideas about who you are, and it can be frustrating.

Going for the Rhodes, it really put a label on me that was hard to shake, and frankly I don't think that I did shake it.

I have no problem with people seeing me as the nice guy. I hope they don't see me as just the nice guy.

Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.

People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

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 refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.