Bobby Brown Quotes

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.

I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

The bad boy image is something given to me by the media. I have been in relationships earlier, even for as long as three years. I am not saying I am a saint. I am like any other guy, I guess. Unfortunately, every time I even meet a person, it is reported as a link-up.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

I don't know why I have been branded a glam doll.

I am not the 'Count' that has been portrayed in the media.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able to tell my side of the story. I wanted to be able to explain exactly what I did and what I didn't do to people who thought they knew me.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

All the people know Tomba, but not the real Alberto.