Martin Sheen Quotes

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

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

When people come up to me and say, 'Oh my God - you're that character,' I feel like replying, 'No, I'm just like you; it's just a job.'

I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.

Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

I am an actress, so my fans or the large audience should look at me as an actress on screen and love or hate me based on my performance.

Whenever I see a mirror, I just look at myself, or when I see my own reflection, I quickly take a look; I won't lie about that. But when I am in front of the camera, it's just the character, not me.

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 am not necessarily a private person, but I am Charlotte Flair on camera, and that is playing a character.

I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

I can't be the villain that I play in the movies.

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

Bappi Lahiri has an image that the public wants to see.

It was only in 'Khadgam' that I learnt to project myself and carry off an image of a celebrity, which is very different from what I am in real life.

Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us or what they show us in public.

You kind of wonder when you play a role, will people go 'Oh, is that part of you?'

The 'cash me ousside' girl isn't even a person. She doesn't exist.

I have a strong personality - I know who I'm outside my work, and I'm nothing like the characters I portray.

Maybe I was always more than one person, or even two. Maybe being on TV was just my job. People find it hard to get their heads around that. A couple of times I have shone a light on the other sides of my life, but I have learned to be cautious about that. Because people are only comfortable with the Noel Edmonds they see on television.

If fans consider me a heartthrob, I think it has more to do with the kind of characters that I have played.

Playing Mo-yeon was satisfying because I could be irritable. I normally can't be like that in public because of my image.

After six years of doing it, the weird thing on 'Towie' is that we can't explain to people that we're famous. We're doing a show where we have to act like normal people.

I do enjoy doing the TV work, but I try to be careful not to do too much. Otherwise, you end up being recognised just for being on television rather than for your own stuff.