Romola Garai Quotes

Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.

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.

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

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

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."

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

A lot of people question my image and why I do what I do, and the answer is because this is how I want to present myself.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

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

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

Some people are really good at packaging themselves, but that's not really me.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren't. Truth was - and nobody ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years - what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.

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

I want to represent my name to the fullest: Ginuwine.

I don't want a 'good' image.

I'm definitely not trying to go out of my way to create my own image or ensure my own imprint.

Filmmakers are stuck with my glamorous image. Even if I sit in track pants and a T-shirt, I will still look glamorous. That's the way I am. But there's more to me. I'm a real person.

They say the best wrestling gimmicks are a heightened version of yourself and that's me!

I'm really not about changing my image.

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