Elvis Presley Quotes

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

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 must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image, then I can kind of understand that pressure because I'm considered to be one of those images, and I know how unreal they are.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

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.

So many people define themselves by what they've accomplished or not accomplished.

My opinion about myself is so based on what other people think of me.

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

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

It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.