Mara Wilson Quotes

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

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 knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

I'm definitely not trying to go out of my way to create my own image or ensure my own imprint.

I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it and I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.

It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

What is important for me is that the people who know me for real know Mario how he really is. People who don't know me, they read newspapers and they watch TV. TV is made to give a lot of opinions... so I can't show the real Mario to everybody.

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.

I'm trying to have some control over my image.

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

I'm not ashamed of my social media following, my Sports Illustrated swimsuit shoot, or the tough time I had in my LPGA debut, but these small facets of my life are easily manipulated by the Internet to get views, and they don't define me as a person.

I don't want everyone to think I'm just the girl who acts.

Being a young actor in the industry, I had a lot of people who strongly advised me to stay quiet. That was hard to live with. But I've never played a gay role before, and I didn't want to be limited by some strange perception.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

I want to represent my name to the fullest: Ginuwine.

I don't want a 'good' image.

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

For me, I've never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

Filmmakers are stuck with my glamorous image. Even if I sit in track pants and a T-shirt, I will still look glamorous. That's the way I am. But there's more to me. I'm a real person.