Dee Dee Myers Quotes

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.

Media always comments if I wear the same thing twice.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

I just like to be seen for the hard-working actress that I am and not for a bunch of extraneous press.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

You can't complain about your dressing room or you'll look like Celine Dion.

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

English people have seen me get through scandals.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

People have to be sensitive to - I hate using the word 'celebrities' - people in the spotlight. Because there's so much more than what you see on the cover of a magazine.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

I have a few uniforms - depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.

What you wear for work should be comfortable and empowering. If you're working in business, your outfit should mean business. If I go to meet somebody about an acting job, or something creative, then I'll be in my jeans. For me, overdressing is my biggest fear.

The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you!

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.

My clothes, my stockings, my wigs were a matter of public discussion …. Columnists asked me about anything and everything—except my job. Women's magazines and women's pages featuring articles about me—sometimes without bothering to interview me. Cartoonist delight in sketching me and my clothes and swelling girth. and always the whispers and speculation about my sex life—how much, and with whom.

The modern politician is less interested in being a hero than a superstar. Heroes walk alone; stars derive their status from approbation.