Monica Lewinsky Quotes

It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

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.

I am better than my reputation.

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

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

You have to have an overall vision of how you want people to see you.

As far as fan perception, it's probably worse than it should be. I think it's getting better, but I think I still get perceived based on the things I did earlier in my career.

In terms of what people think about me, the truth of the matter is, I guess I care to a certain extent, but not enough to try to go out in the public and plead for some kind of new understanding of me.

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

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

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 really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.

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

Design can change how you look at yourself.

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, 'Oh you're not that shy...' I never said I was! I see where they're coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party - I get it. But it's not 100% accurate.

I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it. Maybe things would have gone differently for me in some ways if I had.

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'