Michael Jackson Quotes

With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

The public doesn't care about my size. It's just something for the media to talk about.

We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

I'm not in the business of trying to be a celebrity. I like entertaining and being in movies. I like when people leave a movie and talk about it with friends. My biggest struggle is the press... its an odd thing and something I've had to learn a lot about.

My whole life, I've been judged for how I look, which is part and parcel of being in the public eye, playing sexy roles and posing for lad's mags, but I want people to like me for my personality and brain.

I grew up with gossip mags commenting on how I looked.

But I'm constantly surprised by the amount of interest in how I look. It's flattering, but a little weird - at the end of the day, I'm a footballer.

You know, it really doesn't matter what the media write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.

One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

I don't rely on my figure to sell records.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

Looks aren't a big thing to me. I keep reading these articles in fan magazines about me, and I don't even know who they're talking about. It's boring.

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

I don't consider myself a sex symbol.

Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.

I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.