Tamlyn Tomita Quotes

I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me.

How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.

Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone's opinion of me by them knowing me as a person instead of an artist.

I've worked with actors who were very helpful and a lot better than I was.

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

I'm actually just an actor.

I'm no role model.

I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.

I think my teammates make me look a lot better than I am.

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.

I ain't no icon. It's people like Patti LaBelle, somebody like that's an icon. I'm just Missy. I'm just crazy, that's all.

I don't think I'm any smarter than any of my developers.

Have people like Kim Kardashian really fought their way to the top on their own? Or is that just the brand they want us to see. I don't buy it. I think we flourish by working together.

The way NXT has been from day one when I was asked to do it, 'Don't put me on camera. I do not need to be on camera unless it's absolutely necessary. This isn't about me, it's about the talent,' and everyone that works in NXT, that's what we think.

People told me all of the time, 'You could be such a big star if you just talked about yourself more,' but I'm not good at that. It's always been about team.

If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.

Most people can differentiate between the guy you see on TV and the real-life guy.

People see me for 30 seconds at a time, and they see someone who's got a hair and make-up team that put them together, and they're looking all right in the world, but it's not.

You don't want to bring attention to yourself; you want to bring attention to the team.

I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.