Christopher Lee Quotes

When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

At first all I wanted to be was famous; then I realized that fame had nothing to do with talent. I felt that I didn't do anything quite well enough, that I was one of those people who was famous but not very talented. So I said, okay, I'll be the Dinah Shore of the Seventies, on TV all the time but nobody quite knows why.

Privately I think that I'm not really somebody who has a network television show. Celebrities are other people - Johnny Carson and Sylvester Stallone. I'm just a kid trying to make a living is the way I feel.

For the most part, people don't know who I am.

I almost find it very attractive when a woman has no idea who I am.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

There are so many people in the world and not everybody knows who I am, some people do, but I just don't think a lot of people know who I am.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.

When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'

I don't think I am even that popular. In fact, people must be wondering who the hell Nia Sharma is!

I didn't want to be the bass player everyone forgot about.

I was always introduced as the Beatles photographer and I gave it up in the end. I was so unsure of myself. Am I good or am I just the Beatles photographer? People were not interested in what I did before. I could not stand it any more.

I know I have become a star, but I don't want to believe it.

In New York, no one really cares who the hell you are. It's strange to be in the public eye where people have a perception of who you are, when they have never even met you.

The growing pains of being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand.

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

As you become famous you lose some of your anonymity, which is wonderful for an actor to have because you can observe people and also people don't have such a strong sense of who you are and that sort of thing.

I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.