Diablo Cody Quotes

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

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.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear them reasonably well.

Once you've been painted as something it's very hard, especially when you're young, to wash that off.

I don't want people to think I'm a wrestler.

Nobody ever thought of me as dumb. They always knew me as cerebral, a thinking person. Educated and so on. But I was always given glamorous roles.

A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

I don't think I have a black-hat image.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

People always brand me as this person who is anti-Brady, and I don't think that I ever have been, except that occasionally I would like to talk about something else that I'm doing.

I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.

I don't know that any of us can control our own image. We are what other people see.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

People seem to think I got where I am because of the clothes that I wear.

I don't want a 'good' image.

There is a version of me people see. I don't think I play up to it, I think it's more other people put it out there. People see the football side of me, but I'm a different character away from it.

I don't know why I have been branded a glam doll.

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.