Ava Gardner Quotes

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

I'm a sex symbol. Is that wild? It blows me away. I mean, I've always known it, I just figured nobody else did.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting 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.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

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

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody like, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things.

I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.

I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'

Even though my parents were famous actors, I honestly felt most of the time that I didn't understand what was going on.

I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world.

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.

I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol, and it's getting me attention. But I know I can act.

I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.