Storm Jameson Quotes

I'm not like a politician that goes around talking about family values. And I can't get fired from being a funny person because I did something that most people are disapproving of. I think people are just obsessed with this morality that people perceive as being the right and wrong way of doing stuff.

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like General David Petraeus because he had a mistress. In France, if a powerful man doesn't have a mistress, he's considered a wimp.

I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.

I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?

The guys you see me bring home, we're only cuddling and making out like any other person would do, but we're on camera and the whole world's seeing it, and it does look like I'm having sex.

Growing up, my dad was a pastor, and much like The First Family or people in front of the public eye, we were highly scrutinized as a family within the church and looked at as - well, I guess you would call an example of what that family image should be.

I did not want the audience to have the perception that I wore a bikini on screen.

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 don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they are role models.

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

We are the shadow cast by real people. And that shadow changes shape as the news cycle changes shape, so you always have fresh dirt to dig in.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?

It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.