Walter Lippmann Quotes

Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us or what they show us in public.

The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.

Angelina Jolie seems like she cries a lot, which puts me off.

Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be.

The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

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

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

It is a fine line to be this PG superstar and also a role model and a bad guy and playing off our personality.

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

People like to define you through what they've seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don't sit around thinking, 'I've been a bumbling suitor all my life.'

If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."

I've never swayed from who I am. People have seen me on television, and they know what I'm like and they know what I do and they respect me for what I do. They know that I'm huggy and kissy.