Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

I enjoy this confusion. Heloise? Christine? Chris? Maybe I will be called C at some point.

What's there in a name! Some people call me Jai, while others call me Jaggu, Kishan, Jackie, or Bhidu.

As a kid, I went by Tray. In college, they called me Hitch. And Trash. And Park. All the usuals.

I was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting to go by a different name, and then it just kind of stuck.

My family calls me Mitchell. But I have friends and teammates who call me Mitch, as well. I don't have a preference.

'Shaggy' was a nickname before it was ever a stage name. I have no problem with it.

From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I've always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, "I'm Bob Knight."

At present our only true names are nicknames.

In the beginning, yes. I didn't like it because I wanted people to know me by Gabriel Iglesias, not by Fluffy.

Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, some people call me Mayer, some people call me Haircut.

In credits, I'm 'Michael' sometimes now, but people know you as something, so there's no point fighting it. 'Squiggle,' you'll always be 'Prince,' and 'The Rock,' just accept it. I want to move on, but not that much. So I'm still known as 'Johnny Vegas.'

I am George Cockcroft. But when I come to England or Europe, where the name Luke Rhinehart is better known, then I use that name.

My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character.

I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.

I wanted to change my name when I first started because I thought, 'No-one is going to believe that it is my name.'

Going for the Rhodes, it really put a label on me that was hard to shake, and frankly I don't think that I did shake it.

I don't have a nickname and I'm not looking for one.

Chantelle Brown-Young is my real name. Winnie is my nickname that I was given as a teenager, and it has stuck with me. I've combined my real name and my nick name to create 'Chantelle Winnie.' My alter ego, where I seek confidence when I model, is 'Winnie Harlow.'

People call me Swimone more than Simone now.... Not quite used to that yet!

I think I do become someone else. In real life, I’m very shy, but people think I’m this angry, sexy kind of... god knows what they think! And there I am in front of them, nervous and blushing and stuttering and whatnot. So I’m definitely not the person you see in pictures. I mean, in pictures, you look like something you’re not.

I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

When I was at college, my nickname was Keds, because I wore Keds. I guess it wasn't really a nickname, because nicknames are usually given to you by people who are your friends and who know you.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.