Shannon Bream Quotes

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who spoke the truth.

Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known.

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

I'd hate to be really beautiful on telly and then have everyone go, 'It's all make-up and lighting.'

And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.

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.

I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

Having a reality TV show, everyone feels like they know you, but that's only 10% of my life. There's a whole other side of me that people don't see.

When you reach a certain age, and people see you on television, they look at you and think, 'Wow! Everything must be great!' Well, everything isn't always great. You can be hailed on the street corner, but you still have to go home and take out the garbage.

I do think people see us on WWE so often as just characters. They forget we have real lives and we go through similar situations as the average person.

I'm not an actress, I'm a girl who was on reality TV.

I want to show people how I really am. Most people are only familiar with some of the headlines.

But, in real life, I'm not a sex symbol. I'm popular with female viewers, but television is fantasy land. People watching don't see the real person; they see a romanticised image.

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.

If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.

It was a scary decision to let cameras into my life, but if I was going to do it, I just wanted to be really honest and kind of introduce myself as an adult. I think the world met me as a young girl, and they still associate me with who I was when I was 13, they still don't understand how over the last eight years what has happened and who I've become.

I think a lot of people have seen me on The Simple Life and think I'm a "spoilt airhead," but I was playing a character. The producers said they wanted Nicole and I just to be crazy and funny and say outlandish things.

I have met Mariah before and she's really cool and so funny. Everyone has been given the wrong impression of her, and maybe it is her doing. But you have to remember that celebrities are always in the spotlight and are sometimes forced to conduct themselves in a different way than they normally do. That's how it is in the business. I have met artists who are real divas, but Mariah Carey is not one of them. She is a very sweet person, and what nobody sees off camera is the real person she is on the inside.