Cilla Black Quotes

I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.

I never want to be one of those artists who feels untouchable and extraordinary. I have to be genuine.

It would be easier to be more mysterious, but I try to be accessible.

I relate more to 90 percent of America because I look like 'em, act like 'em. I'm not above anybody; I put my pants on the same way. Some guys try to live up to their persona. I'm just me.

I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.

I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.

I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.

I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.

I'm real, and that what you see is what you get with me. I want people to know that I'm just Julianne. I'm not somebody that needs to be put up on a pedestal.

I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn't want to become a writer - it just happened.

I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.

I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl.

And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.

I'm really a normal person.

This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.

My goal as an actor was just to be somebody very human. I'm not really interested in playing a character who is particularly cool and everything he does looks great and turns out great.

I really am a chick from Long Island who's just learning along with everyone.

I am simple and an open book. I don't like ambitious and materialistic people.

I was always looking for relatability, because I am not someone cut out for larger than life roles.

I'm quite shy and I absolutely love my job - if you'd call it a job - and I like everything that goes along with it, but I think away from that I'm probably no more interesting or special than anyone else, and so I really like just doing normal stuff, as I'm sure most people in our team do.

I think I'm pretty simple; what you see is what you get.

I want the fans to know that just because we have a microphone; we're no different from you.