Self-commodification Quotes

Between the time I first started working in advertising in 1998 and now, the word brand has replaced identity. We are no longer individuals so much as we are brands. We're individual brands. Individuals are basically left to define their individuality by staying off the internet, which in and of itself can be a brand, the opting-out brand.

I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.

It's not always so great to be objectified, but I don't feel I have much of a choice right now. I'm young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

It's crazy to feel like you have to sell yourself and just, like, be almost... marketable. I'd never thought of it that way.

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

My face and my body are my product.

You sell yourself. The part that I sell is the creature. The adorable part.

It's a business, and I'm a product. Terrible, isn't it?

Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?

Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality - or as one says sometimes, our "personality package" - for something.

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.