Ernie Harwell Quotes

In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that.

When I first started my graphic design career, and 'Beach Culture' magazine, I pretty much ran from the surfer label. It was hard to get people to take you seriously.

A watch shows how you want to look - or how you want people to look at you.

The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense.

Image has become everything.

I think people make a lot of judgments about me based on what I wear and all the things that I do.

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

I walk into a room, and people see me as a director, not a woman.

I think, between the tattoos, the way I dress, the way I talk, people don't think it should go together with a franchise quarterback or someone that's leading the team or representing the organization.

I wouldn't want to be known only as a sex symbol. I wanted to be known as an actress equally or even more so.

Not long ago, every time I did a picture shoot for a magazine, the photographer would ask me to show up wearing jeans and cowboy boots. They seemed to think I was a hillbilly. Now it's different. Now they're not quite sure what to make of me. And I show up wearing whatever I want.

Once you've been painted as something it's very hard, especially when you're young, to wash that off.

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

People seem to think I got where I am because of the clothes that I wear.

I'm not trying to prove anything. People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie. They don't really see the skills and the kind of player I am. That's why I get downgraded so much, because of something off the field.

People have this kind of different image of what Israel is and what it's about. And yes, there are military people all over, but there's so much more.

There is a version of me people see. I don't think I play up to it, I think it's more other people put it out there. People see the football side of me, but I'm a different character away from it.

People have their image of you or their ideas about who you are, and it can be frustrating.

I think people underestimate because I'm the rap guy, I'm a crazy guy, screaming all the time. But that doesn't mean that I'm not intelligent.

I'm not the face of Mexico.

I like to think of an image as different from a photo.

I don't want people to think I'm a wrestler.

I think everybody who sees me would think that I'm really scary or something. But I'm not!