Holly Willoughby Quotes

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

People see me as something I'm not.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

That's always a funny thing, when people think they're known for every little thing they ever did, and they're really not.

Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.'

The strange thing about people considering me upbeat is that I'm really not.

I will never be Barbra Streisand, but I have done an awful lot more than what I was sent out to be.

You just want fame so bad. You want success so bad. You just believe anybody who conjures up a pretty contract and they're telling you all these sweet nothings I guess.

Most of my career, people have the misconception about me as being threatening and scary, and having an intense look, but that's not the real me.

I think people have a warped sense of who I am.

I think the face of the franchise is kind of how you take it. I know that's been said about me, and that's been said about me at Penn State. But, I think it's kind of how you view it. I really never viewed myself as that. If that comes along with the things that I'm doing, then so be it.