James Lovegrove Quotes

When you're on TV in America, the girls love you. I'm not complaining.

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

Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.

I've never been overexposed or in people's faces, although there are some who argue that in the late '70s and early '80s, I was played a lot!

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

I didn't know I was a sex symbol in the U.K., but if I am, then I'm flattered.

I hope that people like us next year like they liked us last year.

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be.

It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

Everyone thinks I'm a nice guy, which is not a bad way to be perceived.

I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.

I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.