Tamara Mellon Quotes

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

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.

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

I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

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

I'd like to think that maybe the average person is rational, and they realise that I'm not this crazy monster that, at times, I've been perceived to be.

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

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

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.

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

People put me in this ditzy, posh and stuck-up category, so it's been nice the public have been able to see the real me.

Give yourself a healthy bit of distance between your fame and reality because they are two different things.

I think people have this perception of the life that I lead, or that we lead, of drivers, the high life. It's not that.

People have their image of you or their ideas about who you are, and it can be frustrating.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

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