Russell Peters Quotes

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

I think the people get that I'm just kind of an anomaly in a certain way.

I guess I've always been something of an outsider.

I wanted to make a movie that celebrates the outsider, the one who is different, the one who is not normal - and show how important that is.

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'

I'm not really this rock'n'roll chick.

Everyone has their thing, and I was the weird, artsy kid.

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

I don't treat my family any differently because they're on television. I've always had a problem grasping fame. I don't think I understand fame, and I don't think I ever will. I think that anybody who thinks that they understand fame, they're doing it for the wrong reasons.

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

I'm an outsider by instinct.

I have really never aligned myself with hipsterdom or coolness.

There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote.

One of the things is, I don't read my own press. I never watch myself.

If I'm kind of an outsider, it just happened that way, and people responded to it.

I've always been an outsider to some extent.

It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.

I'm used to the public knowing me, knowing about me.

I'm not who people expect me to be. I'm not Henry Kissinger.

I know the book on me is I'm bombastic and over-the-top, but I think people who know me know that's a part of who I am, but it's not who I am.

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.