Jerry Hall Quotes

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

They're just big in the eyes of the American public.

Because I don't go to showbiz parties, I don't have the right image. The media decides who's in and who's out.

I just kind of wanted to do something where you don't just see 'Kardashian' everywhere.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

I smile every time I hear that I'm a fan favorite or a teenage hottie. It is a nice compliment, and the remarks from the fans are great.

I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

When you're on TV in America, the girls love you. I'm not complaining.

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.

People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.

What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.

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

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.