Amy Landecker Quotes

I have met many people, and everyone's impression of me is based on my career.

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

When people think of me, I want them to think of a travel show host who's really funny and good at his job, and I think eventually the CP won't even play into it, or at least that's the goal.

I would never deny the importance of the media, but I wouldn't go out of the way to splash my pictures all over town. I'd rather let my work do the talking.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.

If people are talking about me, I want it to be because of the work I'm doing and not the person I'm seeing.

I think I probably have a creepy kind of scary quality. Otherwise, I wouldn't get jobs. But I also think it has a little bit to do with, you've done it a couple times, and then people see you that way.

In my career, which has been fairly two-dimensional, people make decisions based on your persona.

My work should speak, not being spotted on Page 3.

Really, I've been at the BBC too long and have spent too much time out on the road to worry about being judged as a clothes horse.

I want to try to help shift perceptions people may have of me as an actor.

I want my work to make news and not my personal life.

I'm very cautious of how I'm presented and my type of reputation.

To establish yourself as an actress, you have to become well known. A girl just starting out, I would tell her to concentrate on acting, but she doesn't have to go around wearing blankets.

I want to be known for my work, that's most important.

I love my work. It's been good to me.

I let my work speak for me.

I want to avoid being labeled a sexy starlet, even at the cost of not working.

Before 'Sarkar,' I used to introduce myself as Kay Kay, the actor and then that got reduced to just Kay Kay as people realised that I am already an actor.

I was fortunate enough to be able to keep my real name and build a whole bio around Mickie James.

My work will speak for me. In fact, I never had a PR and I still don't.

Some people bring their work home with them. You might suppose that Sid Mashburn is one of those guys - the man was born with a name so brand-ready he basically had to become an entrepreneur.

I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.