identity projection Quotes

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.

The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.

Much of social media can be seen as the 'News of me.' It's not so much a platform for connecting and sharing as it is a platform for advertising the idea of yourself you want to portray to others: the image of yourself you want to project.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you.

You have to think about how you're going to present yourself and want people, wanna show your stuff and who you are

[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors know—that when a man loses his possessions a very common result is sexual impotence.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

What I do shows people what kind of person I am.

So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like. So forget it. Just think about all the James Deans and what it means.

Narcissism is a strong word, but it is narcissistic to expect everybody in a culture to reflect your own image back at you.

All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing.

If I wanted to make over my image, I could have given 10,000 interviews in the last 10 years. I haven't done anything wrong that I need to make up for. I am what I am in front of the world.

People have linked me to a lot of people. But people also project what they want to see for you.

We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?

When you're choosing furniture for your home that's supposed to express who you are, what you are also saying is you want other people to infer what you want them to infer. What if they see something different? Wouldn't it be really depressing if you're trying to be bohemian and instead they see you as Rush Limbaugh?