Aubrey Plaza Quotes

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

Unless you do the same thing, it's tough for stereotypes to stick. That said, whatever you've done that's most popular at a given moment is what people think "you do."

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

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.

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

In 'The Goods,' I'm Ed Helms' dad, and I was known all those years as Kirk Cameron's father, and now I'm known as Robin Thicke's father, so I find myself playing myself a lot and, frankly, living up to expectations of what the public's image of me is.

In terms of being typecast, if you do something like Father Ted that infiltrates the public's imagination to the extent that it did, I think realistically you're not going to be asked to do something radically different from that very often. But it's not a problem.

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

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be.

I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

People only see you as your last role, so it's hard to break out of that.