Qandeel Baloch Quotes

I've wrongly been called sick by newspapers and magazines throughout my entire career.

I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions - we cry, we have fun, we laugh, we get sad, and we get hurt. When something is written about you, which millions of people are reading, and it is not true, imagine how hurtful it can be.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

People talk about how many goals I score, how I play, how I move on the field. In Argentina, on the other hand, they're always digging for dirt, and they continue to talk about me as the husband of Wanda Nara, that guy who stole the woman and ruined the life of a former teammate, when it was never actually like that.

Magazines started insinuating that I was having affairs with my co-stars. That hurt.

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

I'm not just an athlete doing something for likes on social media.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years. So that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don't think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it's awful to hear and read what is said of you.

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

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

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

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

I'm not ashamed of my social media following, my Sports Illustrated swimsuit shoot, or the tough time I had in my LPGA debut, but these small facets of my life are easily manipulated by the Internet to get views, and they don't define me as a person.

It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.

Being that my name is attached to Disney, especially when it comes to social media, I always have to be careful with what I post.

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

Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.

There have been so many false things written about me by people who don't know me.