Thom Yorke Quotes

I'm not a wannabe Miley Cyrus.

In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.

And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.

Popularity was never my mistress, nor was I ever, or shall I ever be a popular man.

I'm not a shiny pop star.

I'm not the ideal pop star, not what you see on TV. I look like I could be your best friend.

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

Anyone could become a star, but everyone must be a human being.

In interviews, on the set, talking to people, I'll just start talking about my parents' divorce, and go on and on. My mom's always like, 'You don't have to be that honest. You have to be more fake.' You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

I don't see the point in being a star - it takes a lot of energy to carry yourself off as being more perfect than somebody else. I'd rather just be available with all my weaknesses.

For me, I was never someone who wanted to hold on to the celebrity image.

I'll be having lunch with my mum and she'll complain about the paparazzi outside. I tell her that she could have worn a beanie, but of course she never does. She loves it - it's how she chooses to connect with people. That's fine, I can respect that. But I'm the opposite. I always have been.

I don't know anymore where I begin and Obama ends.

For a long time, I was just a football player, but I want people to see me for who I am.

I am the original item girl and will always be so.

I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.

You better believe I'm not a pop star.

Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it.

Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself.

I don't see myself as an icon, because I just wear whatever I want to wear.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

A lot of times we expect people who get money and fame to suddenly become this "role model" or this "icon." That ain't how it works. Money and fame - all it does it just allows you to be more of who you really are.