Pele Quotes

I don't care what you say about me. Just spell the name right.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

Names aren't just coathooks, they're coats. They're the first thing anyone knows about you.

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

I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

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.

My name? Of course it helps. If you've got it, use it. I'm proud of it, for sure.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

My name is more important than myself.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

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

People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

I'm 'That Guy.' That's what most people call me, and I'm fine with that.

I don't mind if people say I was on 'American Idol,' because I was, and that is a part of my past, and I'm super proud of it, but I don't want that to be all there is to me.

There were absolutely times in my life when I tried to get people to call me Robert.

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

All I want to do in my life is be known as me and for what I do.

Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are.