Mary Lou Retton Quotes

People seem to think that I'm not aware of how people perceive me. But I'm the one that has to talk about 'Police Academy' all day long 27 years later. I'm totally aware of it.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

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

I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.

Celebrity is very weird.

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!'

People think I'm a celebrity. I'm not a celebrity.

I find it so weird when the media calls me 'small screen super star.' I don't think I'm one!

I wanna be more of a pop public figure, iconic kinda dude.

I don't really consider myself a celebrity.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy.

I'm not a 'celebrity'. I'm not a big huge star and so when people see me it's usually to talk about something I've done and that's a great conversation to have.

No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can't remember who I am, I'm no longer famous.

I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.

I don't think anything could prepare you for whatever fame is. Fame is a very hard word to define cause it means different things to different people for different reasons so I never really think of it as fame, I think of it as part of the job.

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.