Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

Women think the people that I play are smoldering and dangerous. I look in the mirror, and I go, 'I don't get it.'

When you reach a certain age, and people see you on television, they look at you and think, 'Wow! Everything must be great!' Well, everything isn't always great. You can be hailed on the street corner, but you still have to go home and take out the garbage.

Surrounded by high-paid publicity people and professional ego massagers, movie stars, like politicians, almost invariably come to believe that they are nicer, more charming, and more beloved than they appear to be to a casual observer, and that their stories about their careers are universally fascinating.

I do think people see us on WWE so often as just characters. They forget we have real lives and we go through similar situations as the average person.

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.

I think people have this perception of the life that I lead, or that we lead, of drivers, the high life. It's not that.

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.

My name is well known, but my image is not, because the image presented to the public is very twisted and far from reality. So, not many recognize me on the street. And I don't usually walk around in the streets, either.

Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self.

At his campaign launch, Donald Trump apparently paid extras $50 to cheer for him at the rally. Trump said, 'Usually when I pay a person to like me, it's my wife.'

I was thrown into the fashion world, dating models - and you'd read about me dating a new starlet every month. That's just where my life was. But I've grown up a lot.

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.

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.

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.

The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers.

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

If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world.

You have to remember that actors are human beings. Which is hard sometimes because they look so much better than human beings.