Nicki Minaj Quotes

Now if anyone calls me Anthony, I usually don't respond.

I'd rather people just call me by my name, Andy, than 'Red Rifle.'

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.

I think people kind of know me, although I am pretty private when it comes to my private life.

In the beginning, yes. I didn't like it because I wanted people to know me by Gabriel Iglesias, not by Fluffy.

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.

When it comes to relationships, it's nice to have something that is your own and not everyone else's. That's not part of my job. I never stood up on a podium and said, 'Vote for me - I'm perfect. I'll be this for you and never do anything wrong.'

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

No one in my circle calls me 'Travis.' Even my family, at a young age started calling me 'Travie.' So I want people to feel comfortable calling me 'Travie.' It's almost like inviting people in.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

My good friends call me Bobby.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.

I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.

I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?

I'm a man in a wig who is an entertainer, I'm not a role model.

I am whatever you want me to be and I can't control that. My experience is my experience, but I can't really claim anything. I know when I take my wig off at night and I have to twist my hair up, I'm black. But I don't get too personal most of the time.