Tina Brown Quotes

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

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

How is it that the country that invented Hollywood and Madison Avenue allowed such a destructive and parodied image of itself to become the intellectual coin of the realm overseas?

There's a whole generation in England who think I'm American, thanks to 'The Walking Dead.' It's an interesting phenomenon of being an actor longer than 25 years because you can tell what people know you from.

It's definitely a sensitive topic to discuss, but I have felt, since I signed with the WWE, I was in a unique position to reestablish how Arabs were perceived in the WWE and western media.

I'd like to say I'd like to be as big as a Gwen or a Madonna, but I think those days of achieving that level are over. The media is bringing everybody down.

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot. Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. Norman Mailer and Vidal, the same thing. The bestselling writers now, there's no great animal energy with them.

There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.

If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights softens you into a cuddly family figure.

I don't see myself as celebrity like other people do. I just think that's funny.

I respect the media, and in return, they respect my privacy.

It's not that people will vote for me only because I am a Bollywood star.

Around the world, I am known as a great musician. But in America, I am known as the cuchi-cuchi girl. That's okay because cuchi-cuchi has taken me all the way to the bank.

I would like to represent the face of Korea; so that people know there is a Choi Si-won in Korea.

We are in love with youth culture in this country... It permeates every aspect of people's lives.

I am grateful to God for that because people can still identify me with something in Germany.

The government should only have one voice so the country knows what we stand for, so the world knows what we stand for.

For most people watching 'Aiyyaa,' what I am down South or what I have achieved does not matter. They are going to look at me as an actor who they will see for the first time.

My Britishness waters my music down!

Financially, it's true that France does not have the same pulling power as England, Spain or Italy. But this is not the aspect that matters most to me.

I'm trying to write about serious issues, about Iceland's journey into modernity, about the soul of Iceland - on how people react when they get too much money too quickly and how it affects our culture.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied... now the millions around the world call us the Great Satan - and with good cause.

I?m much bigger in Britain than I am there. I'm well-known, but my name's That Guy in America. . . . People shout: "Hey ? I know you! You're That Guy.".

We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.