Professional Branding Quotes

This is the way I see it: I've worked really, really hard for Tamera Mowry. I will eventually change my name to be Tamera Housley, but I'll be Tamera Mowry - that's going to be my acting name.

I remember being on this film once, and people said, 'You're not on Instagram or Facebook - what's your deal?' They said, 'In this industry, if you want to do well, people want to invest in who you are.' I said, 'I'm an actor, not a celebrity - they watch my acting, and hopefully that's enough.'

Facebook is for people, Twitter is for perspective, Google+ is for passion, LinkedIn is for pimping

Generally, when I tell people I'm a painter, they ask me if I have a card: 'Yes, we'd like this room in this color.' I still might get cards that say 'Mark Bradford. Painter.'

There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

You'd rather have a good headshot that cost you a little more but that's going to last than pay less money for a headshot that's not good enough.

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of business cards.

In your career, you must be so careful; otherwise, you get caught in a particular image, and it's hard to break.

Building out a professional profile on LinkedIn certainly makes sense, and bolstering that CV with intelligent pieces of writing is also a great idea. But if you're going to take the time to create content, you should also take the time to create a home for that content that is yours and yours alone.

When I wanted the CEO of Starbucks to keep me in mind for their board, I sent him a note rather than calling. I call it dripping: You don't want to be like a faucet full-on; you want to drip just enough that they don't forget about you.

I learned that you have to say that you're a filmmaker. You're not a screenwriter; you're not a director for hire. You've got to take charge. You're a filmmaker, and you're going to make a film.

I've had people say to me, 'How dare you have a Twitter,' you know, with my gimmick, I guess, and I just say, 'It's 2017.' It'd be hard to find someone in America who doesn't have a phone that has Twitter capabilities. So as a WWE Superstar, I think it's OK that I have a Twitter, people.

You can monetize yourself if and only if you develop a reason to monetize your services and or talents. In other words, you must have a unique proven talent, track record that will make people want to pay for that service or product.

It's important to have a say in your off-the-field brand and what you're doing, your sponsorships, what you want to be represented by, and the image you want to have.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.

I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that has come a book deal, and I think it certainly contributes to people's view of me as a person with a sense of humor, which is only helpful in my industry.

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

I think sometimes the fighters aren't very clear on things, and even myself, I'm a fighter, a lot of fighters make mistakes about working their image and how they market themselves.

Applying for a job after finishing a Ph.D is about turning yourself inside out. You've been involved in the most introverted process you've ever done, and now you have to show yourself to the world at large.

It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it?

In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that.

I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year.

My real last name is Flores, and Milian is actually my mom's maiden name. So it's not made up, which is cool; it runs in the family. And it actually worked out better for my career to have the last name Milian, because Flores kept me in a little box, and no one really associated me with the last name Flores.