Henri Bergson Quotes

A watch shows how you want to look - or how you want people to look at you.

'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

'Nimona' is about identity and if who you are is defined by what you look like. It's not a book about body image at all, but I would be lying if I said that wasn't in there even at the conception of it.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

A selfie is a sort of interesting way to reclaim the gaze, right? You're looking at yourself and taking a photo while looking at everyone. But also, who cares?

I don't want to shut the door and only be thought of as the dark girl.

I thought I was a sexy symbol!

I don't want everyone to think I'm just the girl who acts.

I feel people may see me as that young pop star artist, which I guess I am, but I'm not that cutesy little guy anymore. I'm a young man, and I want to come off that way.

Maybe some people look at me and just see a footballer, or a black footballer. But I am much more than this. I tell my best friends all the time, 'If you look at me as a footballer, and not as Little Kouli, and not as your friend, then I have failed in life.'

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

A lot of people don't think I'm English. I've lived in France, and people do think I'm French, but I don't see myself as having a glamorous look.

I don't want a 'good' image.

I like being photographed without glasses. I don't want to be pretentious.

About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black curly hair. That's how I was portraying myself.

What people think when they see me on TV is that they're experiencing me but they're not.

For me, Instagram had become a place where I could image myself the way I found myself.

For me, I've never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

Everybody knows how important clothes are, for yourself as a person, and of course for a character it is the same. It's everything.

We create constructs to understand ourselves, the way we look, how we feel, what we believe - and we telegraph that 'branding' to the world.

Clothes are endless possibilities for meaning because with every change or different association, you are a different person.

Fashion is used as a tool to convey a point about who we are or potentially want to be. Whether or not a civilian curates his or her own aesthetic is up that person, but it is an integral part of one's public image.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.