Rhea Perlman Quotes

If they didn't call you a tough guy, then what else would they call you? Something worse than that? I'm playing parts, and if they call you that, it's because I played the part right.

What you seem to find when you get into this biography business is that people tend to have an image of themselves that they want to project, and they want to color statements by this image.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.

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 love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.

I'm trying to have some control over my image.

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

There's nothing I can control about how people see me as a person, but I can control how they think of me as an actor.

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

I find if my character is more glamorous, I become more conscious of what I look like.

I never tried to put myself in situations where I had to be anything other than what people saw on TV.

People share things that make them look good.

I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.

The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

We are not always totally happy about how we are portrayed.

I'm not Tom Cruise. I don't have to look that good. I'm always going to have a problem because I'm thought of as someone edgy, but I'm not. I'm a cupcake.

I use two million Twitter followers as a tool. The reason I have Twitter is so people can get to know me as a different person other than Dwight. I just realized all of the sudden like everything thinks I'm Dwight. They think that I'm Dwight from the office and that I'm this kind of annoying, difficult, nerdy, creepy guy and they don't know Rainn Wilson - although I'm a little bit nerdy, annoying and creepy. I'm not as much as Dwight Schrute.

It doesn't surprise me that people can't see beyond my image. It's amazing, but I can understand it. That's what image is for. But it's never a problem for me. It's only a problem for them. I don't really care. I do what I want regardless.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.

I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.

I'll never accept that I'm a sex symbol. That will mean that someone is a bit too fond of himself. If it happens, I think it's certainly going to be odd. People shouldn't see me as a sex symbol. I'm really just Henry. I'm just telling a story. I could be playing an incredibly unpleasant character who's not sexually attractive at all in my next movie. So I've no expectations at all.