Jai Courtney Quotes

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

I don't want to be known just as 'Carrot Top.' I don't always want to be this crazy, goofy guy.

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

The kind of roles which you get, people identify with your roles, and it then leads to the kind of brands you get.

After I did 'Brooklyn,' I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the bad guy, but something violent about it to keep the street cred up, really.

I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.

I just want to be known for the work I do, not my personal life or what I'm wearing.

I'm not trying to build my own brand.

If everything in my career has to be made into an autobiography, then there will be people who might think that I am trying to make a statement. But I don't want to do that.

I think timing is everything. I have no regrets in my career. I've been able to make a name for myself and build my own brand.

People don't think of me as Glenn Kelman; they think of me as the real estate guy. If I wasn't interested in real estate, that would be pretty tragic, wouldn't it?

When it's your own name that is the business, the business never stops.

I hate publicity. The only publicity must be through my work. I can only talk about myself in relation to work. I know about work - but I don't know about me.

I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.

Most of the people I interact with on a daily basis don't even know what I do for a living, so the 'persona' thing doesn't amount to much.

Whenever people say things about me, it always comes back to Liverpool - but I cannot just become 'the former manager.' I am a professional football manager.

Over the years, there is a kind of film that the audience associates with my name. A brand has been built with the kind of films I've made and I want to keep that up.

I didn't really think of Hollywood or doing an action movie just because it was not something that I had in mind or that I thought was possible.

I've become a brand.

When people think of me, I want them to think of a travel show host who's really funny and good at his job, and I think eventually the CP won't even play into it, or at least that's the goal.

It's your career, your face, your name. You have to be in control because if something gets messed up or something doesn't look how you want it to, you're the only one to blame.