Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that. I'd be embarrassed if that was the way I came across.

Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative.

To join in the political fray, I don't think it convinces anyone. It just becomes a talking point on CNN.

I have found, in my life experience with President Trump, when he's out there himself and he's being his fresh, authentic self, it's very appealing to the people of the United States.

In political science, public support doesn't have a reverse gear. It always goes forward.

Who is Allen West? What is Allen West doing with his time? He's the most irrelevant person in America.

I never call myself a Kennedy cousin. In fact, when I signed my contract with Bravo, I made it very clear that they were not allowed in promos to refer to me as a Kennedy cousin. I'm not that person. I don't feel it.

Not only has celebrity dumbed down our politics, it has become intertwined with it.

I've decided to get into active politics on Narendra Modiji's request. I don't know how successful I will be, but I'll give it my best shot.

Because of who my husband is, and our life, and also he is number one in the polls - well, you take that all together, and people are very curious about me. I'm choosing not to go political in public because that is my husband's job. I'm very political in private life, and between me and my husband, I know everything that is going on.

I prefer that people are now talking about me as a player rather than about my hair.

When you don't have a voice like Michele Bachmann's, who personifies all of the good things that the Tea Party has come to mean to America, then it's more difficult to have any sort of unified or representative message with the same profile in the media.

Filmmakers are stuck with my glamorous image. Even if I sit in track pants and a T-shirt, I will still look glamorous. That's the way I am. But there's more to me. I'm a real person.

As a politician, I spent a lot of time in Washington and New York, cities that are familiar to Europeans.

I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who spoke the truth.

I don't really consider myself a celebrity.

I don't really regard myself as a political figure.

I want America to see me as a combination of the Rev. Sun Moon and a singing star. That's the image I want them to have.

I still think it's weird that people are interested in what I like and what I represent.

People perceive actresses in a different manner when they are portrayed glamorously. I don't want that to happen with me.

I want people to think of me as a 'Mindset' guy, a journalist, a commentator, a social media personality, a filmmaker, an author, but I got to - I have to pivot so far away from anything pro-Trump, I just got to keep going that way.

On a 1 to 10 scale, I don't think that I could model, but I could definitely end a Republican senator's career.

When it comes to politics, it's nice to be mired with Sarah Palin. But I'm Paul Gosar. I'm my own person.

There have been a lot of crossover with celebrities and politics but to me, I don't think I would go into politics.