Tia Carrere Quotes

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

My personal experience has been that in my free bohemian subculture, I'm not unique.

I'm no less rock 'n' roll than anyone else, I'm pretty normal.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

I am not normal.

It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

I definitely feel I'm outside of the polished pop girl group, which feels right. I don't think I could keep up that polished surface on purpose.

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

I didn't go to prom because I was too punk.

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.