Cornel West Quotes

I'm the same as I am on the field as I am off the field. It's not an act. I can't be another person on the field as opposed to being off the field. I am on who I am off.

It is always the genuine Teemu Selanne that you're seeing. He never puts on a show. It is Teemu. And that's what we love about him.

I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.

I'm really a normal person.

I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.

I don't feel like I'm a character; I certainly don't feel like I'm a gimmick. I am who I am.

I'm very authentic, I think, and what I mean by that is whatever roles that I do take on, I'm really passionate about it.

I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it.

At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it's a rather sad life.

I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.

Just stay real and stay a real person.

I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.

I love people who are real.

I've never been no superficial cat.

I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.

I try to be authentically who I am.

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

People follow me because I am just a normal person, and they can relate to me.

Why should we change on stage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

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

I want people to hear the honesty in my singing, and that I'm not hiding behind anything. It's raw. It's not for any arrogance or ego. It's just pure feelings.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.