Alexander Volkanovski Quotes

People don't need to necessarily see me in the jersey to understand who I am and what message I'm trying to get across with the things that I'm marketing.

I'm not trying to build my own brand.

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

I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me.

A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a person. If you're not in that boat, which most people are not, personal branding makes no sense.

I'm not trying to make a brand out of myself.

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you're viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

I want to represent my name to the fullest: Ginuwine.

I want to create my own legend, my own trademarks.

I feel like my rise is connected to my lyrics, my look, my dance, my character, it all feeds into the same funnel, which is me, myself.

I want to build a brand for myself and get booked for being me, while others will get booked for being them.

I want to show people what I'm about - not just, 'Here's my celebrity partner this year that I'm going to showcase.'

I am not trying to be the next anyone - I am going to be the first Dolph Ziggler!

I could have had my husband put me on a lot of TV shows every day, but I chose not to. I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well.

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.

I want people to get a better sense of who I am, whether they've seen every video or zero videos.

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

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

People think I don't like interviews but I don't mind speaking about proper and interesting stuff. When it's stupid stuff to build your image and you are told to mention this and mention that, I hate it.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.