Sean Maher Quotes

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

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.

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

A regard for reputation and the judgment of the world may sometimes be felt where conscience is dormant.

It’s not what you are that counts; it’s what people think you are.

In a campaign, impressions can be much more important than facts and debate.

There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.

In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.

If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.

You got to look nice. If you got 10 kids, they'll talk about you if you don't look nice.

At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

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.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

When you're in the spotlight, people want to dissect you and then put you back together the way they want you.

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.'

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.