Bobcat Goldthwait Quotes

It's not what you are in Hollywood - it's what people think you are.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.

You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

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

I was stuck with the dark glasses. They took all these pictures that went around the world. I guess once you become successful, you don't want to change anything too drastically.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That's part of being a public figure.

My reputation is a media creation.

In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.

Popularity means people think they know you.

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.

Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

People will know you for whatever they want to know you for.

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

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

I happen to be notorious. That, I have no control over.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.