Petra Collins Quotes

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

It’s not what you are that counts; it’s what people think you are.

I'm not a big fan of just cultivating an image.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

I don't think I have a black-hat image.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

It's kinda all about image.

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world.

I don't want a 'good' image.

I'm not against being beautiful or sexy or anything, but I have this 'cool' image that I want to keep.

I never manufactured my persona.

The masks were more of a representation of what you wanted to present as yourself.

I don't want people to think I'm a wrestler.