Meryl Streep Quotes

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

Many times you walk into a room and people have already made up their minds. But it's always good to have something great associated with you.

You know, as far as public perception goes, if you get seen with some people one time, everyone thinks you're in that group.

There's stigmas attached to anything that makes you, in the public's eye, seem weak. So of course, you know, you're in a business where your image, and the way people perceive you, you are taught, is important.

The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.

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

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.

Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.

When you're reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter.

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.

In a campaign, impressions can be much more important than facts and debate.

It is the public which turns a raja into ''rank'' and a hero into a zero.

A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think what I am or should be.

Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.

As far as fan perception, it's probably worse than it should be. I think it's getting better, but I think I still get perceived based on the things I did earlier in my career.

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.

People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

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