Tracy McGrady Quotes

We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

I used to be quite laid back and that. But obviously the more you're in the public eye, the more you've got to... dress to impress.

I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

I think anyone doing an interview is to some extent on show. And therefore, we always want to put on our best face.

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.

It's particularly important for a young woman to be in control of her image - to a certain extent. I mean, there's only so much you can do, because people take photos with you and then all of a sudden they pop up all over the place, they're completely out of context and you have no control over how they're used.

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

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

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 think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.

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

My public image is none of my business.

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

I'm very aware of my image and the perception of me.

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

I don't like to filter myself, but I do it for PR's sake.

I've always been interested in image and reputation management. Because really, when you think about it, it is an old phrase, but all we have is our word and our good name.

What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

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.