Rachel Kushner Quotes

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.

When you already have a following, people are more likely to employ you.

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.

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

I don't want people to think I'm a wrestler.

The kind of person other people perceive you to be controls their responses to you.

How we present ourselves matters a lot, and that's every American, not just at the senior levels.

How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

I just try not to think too much about how I'm perceived. I think as long as I'm still selling tickets and can pay my mortgage, then people are probably thinking good enough things or whatever about me to keep the train moving.

I started to understand how important it was for me to make my own name pretty early on after years of noticing people treating me a certain way because of who my dad was. Some people wanted to be friends, others wanted to test me because I was Chris Eubank's son - inside schools, outside of school, on the streets.

I feel like people see me as this girl next door, and that comes across in my photos.

If everything in my career has to be made into an autobiography, then there will be people who might think that I am trying to make a statement. But I don't want to do that.

My work should speak, not being spotted on Page 3.

I'm not a big fan of just cultivating an image.

I think timing is everything. I have no regrets in my career. I've been able to make a name for myself and build my own brand.

People don't think of me as Glenn Kelman; they think of me as the real estate guy. If I wasn't interested in real estate, that would be pretty tragic, wouldn't it?

I don't want a 'good' image.

A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think what I am or should be.

I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.

It's such a competitive industry. Your film and work make a huge difference, but the secondary thing... your appearance... what you wear and how you are looking are also important.

What I've been doing over the course of my career - everybody's been seeing me be my best self.

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

As you get a lot of exposure, a lot of people looking at you, you have to take it more so how you carry yourself, how people view you. You have to worry about your image.

When I go to parties people recognize me and that's another contact, another tool in my bag of tricks. I don't even have a publicist. I work it.