Jonathan Ames Quotes

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

The public is a part of my real life.

I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.

Having a reality TV show, everyone feels like they know you, but that's only 10% of my life. There's a whole other side of me that people don't see.

People who watch 'The Blind Side,' they're not going to have a chance to get to know me. People I'm close to, as long as they know me, know who I am, I don't have a problem with it.

Those people that are close to me understand me and know me and know who I am outside the race track as a person and a friend, and that's why I'm able to continue to have the relationships and the sponsorships that I do.

I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.

I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.

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

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

When you see me on TV, that's about as close to my real personality as you can get.

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

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

I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

I care what people who know me think of me.

I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!

There is a sense in which we have - like, I go in to teach a class; I may be somewhat different than I would be talking to you, although it's related because it's public. I'm very different with my roommate or my lover or my cats. But I don't know if that means you're acting, really, if you're being truthful.

What was weird for me after 'Amelie' was how people look at you. It moves all your relationships and sometimes even your intimate ones, and you don't understand why suddenly everything around you changes, because you are exactly the same person.

My public image is none of my business.

It's rare when suddenly a window opens up, and you see a side of a celebrity you've never seen before, good or bad.

I felt a responsibility to Simon and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of 'This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public.'

Hollywood is what I do. It's not who I am.