David Schwimmer Quotes

I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.

Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.

When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.

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 don't want to become known as just a body.

For me, I've always been Justin Trudeau, son of. All my life I've had to know I was carrying a name, and people were paying more attention to what I had to say, and I had to make a choice early on.

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

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

As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.

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

I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

In credits, I'm 'Michael' sometimes now, but people know you as something, so there's no point fighting it. 'Squiggle,' you'll always be 'Prince,' and 'The Rock,' just accept it. I want to move on, but not that much. So I'm still known as 'Johnny Vegas.'

I've sort of come to accept the fact that when I'm 80, people will ask about Michael Alig. I've had to realize that this is part of who I am.

My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.

I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent.

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.

People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.

You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always say to me, 'Your image is this, your image is that.' Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person. That's what I worry about.

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

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal girl!