Willa Ford Quotes

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

I go through the same kind of situations as other people. I have to give that to people, because people have this facade, this mirage, this mirror about me.

I'm very conscious of what I wear, and what I say. I know that if I go out, there will be 10 people who will notice me from head to toe.

People should see my work and think beyond what I am on daily basis, on Twitter, Instagram, or the perception they have of me in their heads.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

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

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.

You can focus on the few things that give people a negative image about me, or you can see the other things I've done, or talk to people in my inner circle who know more about who I really am.

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

The people who watch you on the court often don't know you as an actual person - a human being.

My image is not the greatest, I imagine. You need to know me and understand me, see some of the things I do away from football. Maybe you have to be a fan of me to like me.

When I put my first project out ages ago, I didn't want to show anyone my emotions. Now I think it's better for people to understand how I am as a person and let them relate.

I would say most people assume that I'm not very smart or educated or earnest, because I have this image that I'm sort of narcissistic, chasing attention, and wanting people to like me. It makes me laugh because I've done plenty of interviews and when you read the article from beginning to end you can see that I'm not your typical music video model.

I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

I think I'm not always what I seem. Most people, when they get to know me, say, 'You know, when I first met you...' People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.

People seem to be interested in me. So I try to keep my acting pretty simple.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.