Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss Quotes

If people are talking about me, I want it to be because of the work I'm doing and not the person I'm seeing.

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

I just like to be seen for the hard-working actress that I am and not for a bunch of extraneous press.

There's a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is the unfortunate flipside to it.

I don't want to be in the public eye so much that you reach the point where everyone has an opinion about you.

A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue.

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?