Apollonia Kotero Quotes

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

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

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

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.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don't think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it's awful to hear and read what is said of you.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

My name is well known, but my image is not, because the image presented to the public is very twisted and far from reality. So, not many recognize me on the street. And I don't usually walk around in the streets, either.

I am not the 'Count' that has been portrayed in the media.

Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during his free time, but I'm forever stuck with the image of 'Emmanuelle.' The truth is, I should have got an Oscar for that role because I'm nothing like that woman.

People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.

He's made a business out of being Joe DiMaggio. To remain Joe DiMaggio, you better not have too much known. He's right. The closer you get, the more explosively bad stuff you find.

There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.

Relax. I am not the man I am portrayed to be by some.

When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

That's what media do. They make you out to be a monster.

Anytime I've been photographed with a glass of champagne in my hand, it's really Red Bull.

It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.

I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson.

People often confuse visibility with a lot of other things. Sometimes I become a proxy for things that just aren't true about me. People will say, 'DeRay got millions of dollars in grants.' That's just not true... I'm broke.

There's a perception in certain parts of the media that I love 'bling.' I love diamonds. I love to show off. I really don't understand where that comes from.