Emmanuel Lewis Quotes

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.

I never really created a difference between Shaffer Smith, my actual name, and Ne-Yo. They are kind of one in the same. It's been a bit of a gift and a curse. As far as Shaffer Smith is concerned, I've never viewed myself as a celebrity.

I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in the fashion world, I was just a pretty girl at a party wearing a pretty dress.

I have serious, serious problems with personas - with unauthentic individuals.

He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.

I had now made about 45 pictures, but what had I become? I knew all too well: a phallic symbol. All over the world I was, as a name and personality, equated with sex.

Are women necessary? Not with Ava around

I'm not a bona fide human being.

I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone. Even in line for coffee, you're standing with someone who's trying to be so interesting.

Don't bring a prop. It's almost like they were afraid nobody would know who they are.

Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.

I went from trying to get people just to listen to my music, not necessarily knowing me, to this. I didn't want to be known, because I didn't want to be Fetty Wap... Me, I'm just a background guy.

All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.

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

a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

Some people get the wrong idea, you know. If you're quiet and you're just not the most gregarious person, that you're like.. I don't know, self-involved, rude possibly, frigid. I get that a lot from people who don't know me, like online all you guys think I never smile, ever. It's not true. I do smile sometimes.

Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.

He was trying to save both his faces.

There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.

I couldn't imagine someone playing me or writing a book about who I am. Although I let people write articles and try and express who I am, and it blows up wildly in my face.

I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.