Alison Jackson Quotes

The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.

I think sometimes when you see folks on TV, you are seeing the best part of their life, not the really tough part.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

But, in real life, I'm not a sex symbol. I'm popular with female viewers, but television is fantasy land. People watching don't see the real person; they see a romanticised image.

The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.

Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner - I don't choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.

On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.

Actually, I look the same in real life as I do in the movies.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us or what they show us in public.

People see me for 30 seconds at a time, and they see someone who's got a hair and make-up team that put them together, and they're looking all right in the world, but it's not.

I think a lot of people have seen me on The Simple Life and think I'm a "spoilt airhead," but I was playing a character. The producers said they wanted Nicole and I just to be crazy and funny and say outlandish things.

The fans always ask me, 'Is Si that crazy in real life?' and I said, 'No, hey, he tones it down for television.'

When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue.

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'

A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.

I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.