James Young Quotes

What really ticks me off is how the public figures you automatically become the roles you play. What most people never see is the silly side of me.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

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

The public is a part of my real life.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

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

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

It's almost like living a double life where I'm in a limbo space where Amanda Knox, a real person, exists, 'Foxy Knoxy,' an idea of a person, exists, and I'm constantly having to juggle how someone is interacting with me based upon that two-dimensional person of me that has been in the public's imagination for so long.

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.

The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.

I feel like I'm a designer, not a pop star. But if certain people think of me like a pop star, then the only thing I could do about this is dye my hair black and cut it short maybe.

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

In the beginning, yes. I didn't like it because I wanted people to know me by Gabriel Iglesias, not by Fluffy.

I've never been able to control my public image.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

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 don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.