Sylvia Kristel Quotes

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

People get it twisted. They see the baseball stuff, and they don't see you as a human being. They see you as someone that just plays baseball.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.

I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

People just - they don't really know me. They see me on "The Simple Life," they think that's really who I am.

Unless you do the same thing, it's tough for stereotypes to stick. That said, whatever you've done that's most popular at a given moment is what people think "you do."

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.