Sue Townsend Quotes

I don't know why I have been branded a glam doll.

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.

When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.

I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles.

I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.

People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.

I don't want everyone to think I'm just the girl who acts.

The 'Playboy' affiliation will probably stick for the rest of my life to some extent.

An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience. It seems to attend to the huge success of certain kinds of movies that I did, but there's no personal utility in being an icon. I don't know what an icon does, except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone's attention. I like to work, so there's no utility in being an icon.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

I don’t care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.

The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.

A lot of people in America don't know me, and that's something I have to overcome.

It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

Once you've been painted as something it's very hard, especially when you're young, to wash that off.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.

I've heard people say I'm a Curry and that helped me get where I am. Sometimes I think it's the opposite.

I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, 'He's the baseball guy.' So maybe at some point I'll be known as a football guy too.