Michelle Obama Quotes

I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.

In television, to be a hero and look like I look, that really stuck with me.

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

A hero that doesn't look like you makes you want to be something else.

I'm not a strong woman at all. And I'm not a feminist. In fact, I'm very weak.

I think what happens is, people do just want to see you as a glamour doll that's put up on screen, but I guess it's how you see yourself.

Seeing someone that you can relate to in the media is everything as a child, and a lot of people are not granted that luxury.

Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that reality for themselves.

I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

Hair is about when you're younger. I am my hair.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.

I'm not a sex symbol.

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.