Marla Maples Quotes

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

If I try and be something I am not, if I try and be cool, and I am not, I am a boring white man in a suit. Usually a pin-striped suit.

I just feel like in society and in public, we have this unspoken expectation that we're all trying to meet. And there's so much pressure to try to fit in.

Southern women, especially upper-middle-class women, care deeply about appearances and what other people think.

We all have to wear social masks in our daily lives to get by.

Making something the norm is the only way of not making it a talking point.

In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way.

I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

The idea is that in any situation, people have a notion as to who they are and how they should behave. And if you don't behave according to your identity, you pay a cost.

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.