Sally Field Quotes

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.

I'm not trying to come back and change the perception of what people think about me. They can think what they want to, man.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

I think it's somebody else's job to decide what my image is.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.

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

I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me.

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you're viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

I don't really read that much stuff about myself anyways, because I feel as though you then develop this mind-set of just making sure other people would approve of your decisions.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that youre living for yourself, not other people.

Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

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

I've never met anyone that is their image.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.