Rachel Ward Quotes

It's totally weird to see myself on a billboard!

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.

I never look at any pictures of myself on the red carpet. I can't do that.

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

I think television does tease out a certain vanity in everybody when you look at yourself and you go, 'Oh Christ.' Maybe that's why my intros get shorter and shorter.

I'm not one of those people that pretends he doesn't watch himself.

I used to be very vain about my thumbs. I have fat thumbs. If there's a movie where you see me on the phone, it's not my hands.

It's an uncomfortable thing to talk about myself, in general.

I have this dreadful image of me driving down Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, with the windows rolled down, and our song comes on... and I'm sitting there listening to it and some guy pulls up next to me and thinks, 'Hey, it's that guy from the Goo Goo Dolls... he's listening to his own music. What a jerk!'

I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

I came across an older picture of me that someone had posted on Facebook, and I totally remember squirming and feeling very fat while I was shooting it.

No, it's not comfortable; I hate watching myself. You don't like when you hear your voice on your voicemail; imagine having to see yourself 30 feet wide and 30 feet big.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss.