Chris Evert Quotes

People who watch 'The Blind Side,' they're not going to have a chance to get to know me. People I'm close to, as long as they know me, know who I am, I don't have a problem with it.

I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.

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

I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

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

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

Every once in a while, you need a reminder of how people see you, view you.

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 don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it and tell me if there's something, and that keeps you focused. I know my family and me well enough; why do I need to read about myself? I'm not going to change, I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.

I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

I have a positive outlook, but when you're out in the public eye, you wonder how people see you.

I have a reputation and name myself, everyone knows that. But I believe in myself as well.

I don't know what people think of me.

I don't think I look like I do on the telly.

I don't know how I'm really perceived in the world.

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

But most of us who aren't models aren't models, right? And so, you just have to get used to that and sort of read right past it. So. On the sex symbol piece, I don't get that piece. On the personality piece, that people are excited to meet a leader from Mozilla - maybe there's more about meeting me personally than I give credit for, but I find that people are excited about what Mozilla is, more than 'Oh my god, there's Mitchell, look, her hair,' whatever.

I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.