#Public Perception Quotes

“Now the whole worlds calling me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer.”

“No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.”

“I stopped reading articles about myself. Even if it's not bad, I think actively caring about people's daily perception of you makes you second-guess everything. I am very happily not paranoid right now.”

“People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.”

“I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.”

“If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.”

“When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.”

“What does an actor know about politics?”

“The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.”

“I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.”

“There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.”

“They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.”

“People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.”

“I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.”

“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.”

“Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.”

“Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.”

“Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.”

“People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.”

“I miss the old Kanye, straight from the 'Go Kanye, Chop up the soul Kanye, set on his goals Kanye, I hate the new Kanye, the bad mood Kanye, The always rude Kanye, spaz in the news Kanye...”

“People let their frustrations out on me. I love Kanye West. They say the opposite of that. But I'm not going to say that. I'm only going to say what I'm want to put into the universe.”

“I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.”

“You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.”

“People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.”

“The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.”

“A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.”

“Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.”

“A lot of people think I'm a comedian.”

“I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.”

“I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.”

“Some people in D.C. talk about me like a dog.”

“People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.”

“There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.”

“Maybe they hate me because I'm too good!”

“Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.”

“I know that people have different ways to see me but I'm used to it.”

“Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true, I don't have that. But I do fire them and I do enjoy target shooting and all that sort of thing. I'm not much of a hunter. I don't like killing animals, but I love to shoot.”

“One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during the course of the campaign, is that there's Barack Obama the person and there's Barack Obama the symbol, or the office holder, or what people are seeing on television, or just a representative of power. And so when people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they're responding to this character that they're seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents.”