Erica Jong Quotes

My public image is none of my business.

I am not good with PR or in projecting a certain image of myself, and I don't give clarifications about rumours; that's it.

I could have had my husband put me on a lot of TV shows every day, but I chose not to. I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well.

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.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.

People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.

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

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

Many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him.

I'm trying to have some control over my image.

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

It sounds odd, but it's almost hard to find a piece of negative press about myself.

You know, people are always asking, 'What's your brand?' and, 'What are you all about?' Then you get other people saying, 'You need to do what Connor McGregor does.' But that's not me. That's not who I am. I'm not going to talk trash and build off the bad boy image.

As you get a lot of exposure, a lot of people looking at you, you have to take it more so how you carry yourself, how people view you. You have to worry about your image.

I've been in public life for long enough that I know you just have to live your life normally.

When you are a public figure, relationships are a bit complicated.

I don't like to filter myself, but I do it for PR's sake.

Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn't matter what someone says about you as long as they spell your name right.

I'm not upset about my career; I'm just upset about how my name has been portrayed. A lot of guys have played with Bron and had success. There's nothing I can do about it. I've tried to change my image a million times.

I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."

If you have to release bad news to the public, it would help if you are not ugly.