Cameron Russell Quotes

Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.

It looks different seeing yourself on the big screen.

I've had so many challenges throughout my career, however successful people perceive me to be.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense.

I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it. Maybe things would have gone differently for me in some ways if I had.

Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I like seeing how I can look in a photo.

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

I don't need much of a character in my life. I've already got one; my family knows who I am, and I don't have a reason to make an impression on the world around me unless it's in a professional context. Acting is not a personal experience; it's a job.

The only thing fame has changed about me is that I'm more self-aware when I go out in public.

People tell me I'm intimidating and I've got to come to terms with it.

Before I turned 30, I worked to create Ksenia Sobchak. Ksenia Sobchak turned out to be appalling and terrible in some respects, but nice in others.

I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

I don't particularly love watching myself on camera.

Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

I've become really aware since putting out music that some people can't get past the acting thing. But acting was never what I meant to do.

I appreciate what I have and, when people called me flash in the past, it hurt. I read an article not long ago saying I had given up all the bling and was concentrating on my football. Forget the football articles, that was one of the most satisfying things I have ever read about myself.

Some of what I get, I deserve; I do some dumb stuff sometimes. But I do not deserve the perception that I have.

My first media interview was when I was a high school freshman and I was set to compete at state champs. The interview was the first occasion people had heard me on TV. When I watched back the recording on TV, I thought, 'Wow, is that what I sound like?' I didn't like the sound of my voice.