Jason Wu Quotes

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'

I wanted to change my name when I first started because I thought, 'No-one is going to believe that it is my name.'

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

I don't want a 'good' image.

I'm really not about changing my image.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

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

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

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

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

I don't want to become known as just a body.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

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.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

Some people might think they need to venture out on their own to create their own image. I do not have any of those kind of feelings.