Johnny Vegas Quotes

My name actually is Francesco Castaluccio.

Do not be deceived by impostors.

Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica of the real guy; it was the real guy.

All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.

I am not a myth.

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

The role that people think I play is not a role. When I go home, and I'm with my sisters, I'm the same way. When I'm with my boys, I'm the same way.

I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.

I hope what people see in me is that I'm a normal guy, and that people who look as I do can do normal things.

It's right there on my birth certificate, 'Shelton Hank Williams III.' It's not fake.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.

When I write I am the real me.

I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.

I am me and I am okay.

Along the way, female filmmakers will have the feeling that they're not good enough. And that's really just a result of being "otherized" from the moment they're born. Keep an eye out for all those insecurities, and even expect them. Borrow white male privilege and just move through the world as if it was created for you. You have to kind of talk yourself into an imaginary space where the world is on your side and expects you to speak and wants you to speak. You have to create that space for yourself over and over again. Every hour sometimes.

That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

I'm Mitt Romney-and yes Wolf, that's also my first name.

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.