Erik Spoelstra Quotes

I didn't want anyone to have control over how people saw me. I wanted to have that power myself.

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'm trying to have some control over my image.

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

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

I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.

I just want people to know me.

I have never been interested in presenting myself.

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

Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.

Some people might think they need to venture out on their own to create their own image. I do not have any of those kind of feelings.

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

Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.

We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves.

You need to be your own individual.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

I want people to get a better sense of who I am, whether they've seen every video or zero videos.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.