Sharon Stone Quotes

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

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

He's made a business out of being Joe DiMaggio. To remain Joe DiMaggio, you better not have too much known. He's right. The closer you get, the more explosively bad stuff you find.

My image is the creation of media.

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

Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

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 still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.

I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if you're just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.

Many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him.

Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the way they want to. I don't do that.

That's what media do. They make you out to be a monster.

It's very easy to get caught up in the world of press and maintaining an image and maintaining this highlight reel that the world expects.

I have been accused of having people design my image, tell me what to say in interviews, design my clothes, the way I look and talk, and, of course, my music. It's true I do work with people, but not to accomplish anything bad: just the basics that any person does in this business and with this opportunity to live out my dreams.

You have to have an overall vision of how you want people to see you.

I can't be happy if I want to because the media won't let me be. They keep propagating a tacky image of mine. They even make my charity work look like a publicity stunt.

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

Artistes never make their image. Image is made by the fans and the artiste's job is to fight that perception.

I don't go out of the way to create controversies, I know some actresses pay their publicist money to create a controversy, but I don't know why this happens to me.

The reality here is, these are people that campaign for votes, and nobody wants to be associated with pictures that would certainly exist, even if they were fake, and they most likely would be. You know, can you imagine 150 pictures of that federal agent storming the home in Florida to kidnap Elian Gonzalez and send him back to Cuba?

The media has a lot of power, and everything I do is what I want people to see, whether it's putting out a new single, dropping a new album, doing a new movie or new collab with a designer - this is what I want people to see.

I think a lot of people have seen me on The Simple Life and think I'm a "spoilt airhead," but I was playing a character. The producers said they wanted Nicole and I just to be crazy and funny and say outlandish things.