Sebastian Kurz Quotes

The way I'm portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it's partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I'm digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

What is important for me is that the people who know me for real know Mario how he really is. People who don't know me, they read newspapers and they watch TV. TV is made to give a lot of opinions... so I can't show the real Mario to everybody.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

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

I've never looked at myself as this pop candy type.

I'm trying to have some control over my image.

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.

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

My image is the creation of media.

I don't want a 'good' image.

I'm very aware of my image and the perception of me.

I can't be happy if I want to because the media won't let me be. They keep propagating a tacky image of mine. They even make my charity work look like a publicity stunt.

I never tried to put myself in situations where I had to be anything other than what people saw on TV.

I don't think I look like I do on the telly.

I think what happens is, people do just want to see you as a glamour doll that's put up on screen, but I guess it's how you see yourself.

I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.

I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."

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.

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.

It doesn't surprise me that people can't see beyond my image. It's amazing, but I can understand it. That's what image is for. But it's never a problem for me. It's only a problem for them. I don't really care. I do what I want regardless.

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

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