Ansel Elgort Quotes

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.

If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.

My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

All writing is propaganda for the self.

The thing to strive for is to get paid to talk about yourself.

I always wrote about myself in the third person. I knew how to promote myself so it sounded intelligent. I know how to package myself.

You are the only person who can sell you, so you do spend a lot of time in your job by yourself everyday.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

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

I think the world needs to see more of my face.

Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.

I'm the worst person about publicizing myself.

Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.

I think celebrity has become almost normalized. I feel like we all live our lives in a pale imitation of celebrity. With Facebook, we choose a photo that is not too good a photo - we're more arch than that. We're our own celebrity publicists. We understand it so innately.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure.

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

I'm my best billboard.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.