George Eliot Quotes

People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.

For people at the bottom who are really doing badly — those in the bottom 10th or 15th percentile — they think their work falls in the 60th or 55th percentile, so, above average. People at the bottom still think they're outperforming other people.

I just want people to know that I'm a good person, and I'm not a thug like everybody thinks I am.

I don't care what I look like; it's how people think of me. And I do care how people think of me. I want people to say, 'Oh, she's nice,' rather than, 'Oh, she's so pretty.'

I think people can be quick to judge. The people that know me, they know what I am like.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

Let's say for instance people say, "He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever." I don't think it's true, but people's perception of me leads that direction, like I'm a fundamentalist person. I end up having to spend extra time saying, "I'm not a fundamentalist." I have other stuff to do.

Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.

You're not actually being a good actor all the time. But people refer to me as a good actor because they read it someplace, not because they've made up their own mind. So I'm very lucky!

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook.

People see us as no better than we are.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends

I absolutely do care what people think about me.