A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get 'em the right kind of hat, and if anything's wrong with their nose, if it's a little crooked, it's got to be straightened up.
Realistically, looks offer an advantage to an actor. I'm going to work hard to maintain my skin. I'm going to prevent aging as much as possible. And I will keep trying to become a better person on the inside as much as I spruce up the outside.
A $50 haircut, cool glasses, skinny jeans and a tattoo does not a prophet make.
When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'
The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
I don't think people know me at all. At the end of the day, if you see me in sequins and glitter out at a club, you might think that's all there is. But, you know, it's just glitter. My friends who I've known since I was 17 - they know who I am.
I know I have to keep up my image. It's all about how you handle the situation.
No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.
I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
Appear as you are, or be as you appear.
Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.
I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.
We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we appear to be to others. Most of the time - when we aren't flat lying about something or playing a particularly stylized role in some heightened dramatic situation - this difference between the internal and the external is modest and manageable.
To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.
So the self under the eye lies, Attendant and withdrawn.
There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.
You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.
I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.
We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.
In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.
Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.
As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.
People say nice things about me but they don't know what's been going on between my ears.
