Azzedine Alaia Quotes

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.

I don't consider myself a martial-arts star. I'd be offended and disappointed if I got a reputation as a martial-arts star.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

I don't act to be popular or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time and what I look like.

Of course you want people to notice you're back, and you're playing well just to be respected. Because I was an All-Star, a first-team All-NBA guy. But I don't need the media putting a spotlight on me.

I think it's a personal pride to hear everyone talking about me.

I don't feel like an icon; I don't think of myself as an icon.

I'm just the same guy... I don't need to be a celebrity or a superstar.

People make too big a deal about me.

When I got successful and people started talking about me, I didn't want anyone thinking I thought I was a 'big time Charlie.'

I am very choosy about making event appearances and endorsing brands because, as actors, we have to be very responsible.

As a public figure, I'm always interested in being part of brands that I actually enjoy. So, I would never do something with somebody I don't believe in, a product I don't believe in. There are so many products out there that I love that I'd chomp at the bit to be a part of their campaign.

I don't feel any great need to dress in funny-looking clothes and be recognized as a star, nor do I get that much satisfaction out of hanging around all the main clubs so people can see who I am.

I've never sought to be known or recognized by people.

I always wanted to be the center of attention - you know actors, ugh.

I'm not into fame and ego.

If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.

I get people today who say, 'I first heard about you through the Stevie Wonder commercial.' The power of advertising in that way is incredible.

I don't take myself seriously, I don't think of myself as a star.

I have never felt that I am a star. It never came to my mind.

I'm not the kind of person who is on television and in magazines every five minutes selling clothes or washing machines.