Elizabeth Peyton Quotes

When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.

I don't feel famous personally, and I feel like when most people get to know me, they're like, 'Oh, she's just the same as everybody else.'

I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy.

I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together.

I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.

I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.

And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.

I've never been the guy to go for the celebrity girl. I've always liked regular girls, regular people, because I've always viewed myself as a regular person who just happens to be gifted in music.

When I go back home, I am just Jess, no-one special.

I don't want to be a VIP. I want to be an LIP, a Less Important Person.

I was always looking for relatability, because I am not someone cut out for larger than life roles.

I'm not the coolest person in the world. I'm not the sexiest Diva or the strongest Diva. I know who I am. I'm not the most popular person, and I'm kind of dorky, and I'm someone you can see at your school or as your neighbor, and I think people like that.

I'm still so down to earth and regular. I still be in the projects, I still be in the hood - just regular.

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.

I think... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.

I'm down to earth; people sense that and they appreciate it.

Unlike the LeBrons and A-Rods of the world, anointed as special from pre-K, Matt Leinart exudes an approachability rarely seen in superstars. It's why kids on the autograph line chat him up like a buddy with whom they could stay up late playing Xbox.

In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.

The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.

I'm real, and that what you see is what you get with me. I want people to know that I'm just Julianne. I'm not somebody that needs to be put up on a pedestal.

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.