Sterling K. Brown Quotes

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

I think the most vulgar thing about Hollywood is the way it believes its own gossip.

If you're trying to hide, avoid using your own name. Have a couple spares that you can pull out of your pocket anytime, the more thoroughly documented the better.

Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

You're only famous in the eyes of others. Inside, you're still the same, and not a hundred million records or TV shows can change that. I think the only pitfall of fame is believing that it means something, and behaving like that.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

You never want to inhale your press clippings.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

I'm always suspicious of celebrities that write about their lives.

I did everything I could to remain anonymous for as long as possible.

I'm pretty good at going incognito.

I don't like being recognised. Shopping, I often wear glasses and a scarf.

In Hollywood, you kind of trick yourself into feeling like you have impact.

I can finish a show and walk through the audience without being recognized.

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.

Sometimes it would be nice not to be recognizable!

In 'Hope Never Dies', Biden attempts to disguise himself with a beach look, hoping that the incongruity of it will allow him to snoop around Wilmington without being recognized. Obama, on the other hand, knows the best way to keep a low profile is to just be himself.

If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.

Image overshadows reality in our league, and there are people who get to believe they are better than they really are.