Jack Abramoff Quotes

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

I don't know; I don't really look at pictures of me when I'm in public.

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

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

I've spent the better part of two decades running both toward and away from an image - the Hollywood image - that had come to define me.

For the record, I don't really hate myself, but I do hate the way I portray myself online.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

I'd like to think that maybe the average person is rational, and they realise that I'm not this crazy monster that, at times, I've been perceived to be.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

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.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.