Elbert Hubbard Quotes

The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character.

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am, you'd think I'm an accountant or a lawyer.

I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.

The impression that is out there about me is that I'm really hard-nosed, but the people who really know me, know that I am a soft touch.

Reputation is a very interesting thing, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and I think that there's a part of all of us, especially in a generation where a lot of the stuff gets recorded.

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

I think sometimes when you see folks on TV, you are seeing the best part of their life, not the really tough part.

I live a much more interesting life in other people's minds.

Comey is a particularly infuriating character, and I think what he has always been about, from when he was the deputy attorney general under President Bush, is about protecting his own reputation.

We're all more complex than the person we put out there.

I think 'Ek Chhotisi Love Story' has really damaged me. People think they can compromise my reputation and get away with it.

People who watch 'The Blind Side,' they're not going to have a chance to get to know me. People I'm close to, as long as they know me, know who I am, I don't have a problem with it.

Everyone has a mirror face that's so different from their natural face. And I think it's interesting, seeing the way people want to be viewed when they're putting themselves together.

Oliver Stone might think he's a guy who chews with his mouth open and yells at the hired help, but the George W. Bush I've spent nearly three hours with is a warm, funny, smart, engaged, compassionate, patriotic, decent and honorable man.

What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

A mask tells us more than a face.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.