Perceived Status Quotes

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

The perception that I was just a pop star was pushed upon me by the public, and it's very hard to change the public's perception even though I never really pushed aside the musician aspect of my career. After I released 'Fingerprints,' my peers reassured me that I was on a level that I always hoped I would be on.

An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.

We had thought you had been ruler over your land ... but now we perceive that there be other men that do rule, and not men but peasants and merchants ... and you flow in your maidenly estate like a maid.

I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

I have a credibility on the subject that most people don't.

I actually spoke to one of the heads of a studio, and he said I confuse middle America. Basically, when they see a black person, they see athlete, they see rapper, or they see criminal or something like that. And then when they hear a British accent, they hear posh, so they hear lawyer or doctor.

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

All my close friends are normal dudes and then I will hang out with some girl who is a musician and everyone thinks that's what it's all about.

I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.

You can't be rich unless everyone else agrees that you're rich.

Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.

When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.