Self Rebranding Quotes

I was called Kool Dj Kurt Walker... but they wanted tocall me Kurtis Blow.

I pivoted from a pro-Trump guy to more of a journalistic guy, and I'm going to keep making that pivot. So whenever people think of me as, like, a pro-Trump guy, I don't want people to think of me as a pro-Trump guy anymore.

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

I believe later in life I'm gonna change my name when I start making the right music.

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.

I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me.

I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.

When I got nominated class clown in school, I remember my mom said, 'Don't be no clown.' So I went to my vice principal in my school and said, 'Can we change this to just the funniest?'

In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.

I know I've been called the Louis Vuitton Don ... I've been called a lot of names ... Due to what happened, so severely, when the red shoes hit the runway, I was forced to change my name to Martin Louis Vuitton the King, Jr. Address me as such.

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

I don't have to be that gentleman ["baddest man on the planet"] anymore. Now I have to be "this" guy. And in order to be "this" guy, I have to be smiling, I have to be gregarious, I have to be entertaining, and I have to be friendly. This is what my career needs now. I've adapted. But 20 years from now, I may need a different persona.

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.

We live in an era of reinvention: Madonna and everybody desperately trying to change their persona.

As a teenager, I used to use the nickname 'Moo' as a moniker online, and then I turned into 'Moot' for fun, which I didn't even realize was a real word at the time, and it just stuck with me.

I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.

I came to the big city and I started to get involved in the punk scene and stuff, and I wanted to sort of brand myself. I made a pretty conscious effort to be a different type of person.

I liked the name Frederick Bickel and I wish now I had left it as it was. After all, Theodore Bikel, whose name was similar though spelled differently, didn't change his, and he did all right.