Nancy Wilson Quotes

What people think when they see me on TV is that they're experiencing me but they're not.

In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.

As an actor, you have to understand how you are seen and then play with that. Otherwise, my looks are not important.

It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guitar player that ever was. But he never looked up from the guitar. But I put a little dance to it. They appreciate seein' something along with hearin' something.

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

There's nothing better about being a musician than live performing.

I really enjoy 'festival life,' as it were, and I love the reactions when I bring out my guitar on stage. The crowd are always a bit like, 'What the hell is this urban guy doing with a guitar,' and that's what I love - the shock element of it all!

I always felt like the trumpet or trombone player was always the coolest dude in the room.

Because I'm on my own on stage and wear bare feet and look like a pixie, people always think I'm little.

I play the guitar.

When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.

There's two Michaels: there's, like, my Michael. And the Michael that everyone else sees. Michael the entertainer.

My schedule usually keeps me busy. However, I love performing on stage and I try my best to take time out for live performances.

A lot of people had misconceptions that I throw tantrums and am very arrogant, and I knew 'Bigg Boss' will change that. You cannot pretend for 105 days in front of more than 100 cameras. I know myself, and I was confident that the world will also get to know and understand me through this show.

One time, it was really funny, I was going on stage... and they were like, 'Oh, we didn't mic the puppet! Mic the puppet!' So, that's how I know that sometimes I do a very good job, because they think that the puppet is actually, like, real.

My main focus now is playing the guitar. I'm not really like, dancing on stage anymore.

If you think I'm just another pretty face, read my Facebook updates, read my articles, read the interviews I've done and judge for yourself.

When I sing with Loaded, I can't move at all. I'm playing guitar, and I'm singing.

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.

I've always been a little bit in the background as a singer and even as an acoustic-guitar player, although I crank it up and rock with my Marshall stacks, too.

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.