Ayda Field Quotes

For a long time, I was just a football player, but I want people to see me for who I am.

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

Fame won't make you feel any better about yourself.

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

I don't want to be just seen as a character, because that can get exhausting after a while.

That's why success hasn't changed me: because I don't want to be famous or do TV or be a model or be recognised in a shop. I'm not interested. There's nothing worse.

Being myself has worked out pretty well for me I think.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Diane Keaton, I've worked with her as a director, and I think she's a really intelligent woman. I like the fact that the things that make her feel beautiful are more than just her face; it's who she is, and I live by that same theory. There are things I want to achieve in my life intellectually that make me feel beautiful.

You have to be someone.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with 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 don't see myself beneath Beyonce and Jay Z; I don't see myself above them. I'm in my own world, hungry to grow.

I can't assume that people see me the way I see myself. I have to show them. But I can't do it in a way where it's too much, where it's rude. I feel like when you're a king, you lead. And I just see myself as a king, or as something more than just a regular human being.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'

I don't think I'm boring.