Rei Kawakubo Quotes

I don't consider myself an icon.

I don't think I'm in any way an icon, to be very honest.

I don't feel like an icon; I don't think of myself as an icon.

I'm a big star in Asia, but I never think about being famous.

I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.

Oh, it's fun to be an icon!

I'm a sex symbol. Is that wild? It blows me away. I mean, I've always known it, I just figured nobody else did.

Celebrity is something I've never been into, and never will be.

People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

I'm neither sexy nor a star.

You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon.

I think a lot of people look to me as a sort of lifestyle icon.

I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.

I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.

I don't think of myself as a role model.

My reaction when I hear the word 'celebrity' is, 'Who, me?' It doesn't feel like I'm famous.

I have no illusions of being an icon to young girls or anybody.