Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.
So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.
Where I come from, dressing is a culture. When I go back home, I cannot dress bad. I cannot miss, or people will be like, 'What's going on with you, Serge? Did you lose your mind, or what?' That's the culture.
It's reached this point where people are fascinated by every intricate detail of other people's lives. And some people are willing to give up their lives like that.
Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.
To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.
When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.
I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.
All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work? Vote? Marry? Exist? Are not their skirts too short, or their sleeves? Have they a sense of humor, of honor, of direction? Are spinsters superfluous? But how seldom similar inquiries are propounded about men.
Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.'
I think being a woman celebrity is the hardest thing in India... People will ask many things, what you wear, how you speak, when you will have a baby and other things.
Keep a strict Inspection upon their Conversations; Examine, How they spend their Time; Examine, What Company they keep?
I'm African-American. There are more eyes on me than anybody. They're going to take the negative before the positive.
I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing.
And in high school, people are always watching so there's always a reason to pose.
What is the obsession with not repeating clothes or making appearances that have been similar to the one's we've made in the past? Why is the fashion police so intense? What do they expect from us? What kind of pressure is this?
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.
I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.
