Payal Rohatgi Quotes

I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.

I don't think anybody is ever going to call me to play someone who is mousy and demure.

I never considered myself a celebrity. I hate that word. It's tawdry.

In fact, I love my glamourous image.

I feel like I'm a pop star without being a diva.

Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

I never had that star aura.

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

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

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

It's a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around the C word: celebrity. Rock stars are celebrities because they're larger than life. As an actor, you have to play the everyman and the everygirl. If you start treating people in the real world like assistants, that's not a good look. But my friends keep me grounded.

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

I'm ballsy. Well, sometimes I'm ballsy.

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

I don't really think of myself or picture myself as a Hollywood person.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.

Celebrity is very weird.

On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.