Werner Klemperer Quotes

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

Color don't mean anything. People gonna try to put you in a place one way or the other.

When I first started, all the media I ever got was, 'Hey! There's this Indian girl. And even though she is Indian, she gets views and stuff.'

I refuse to be stereotyped.

I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.

My fellow band members don't discuss their loved ones, and I don't feel that just because I am gay, I should have to discuss mine!

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.

I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked instead of what I could do.

I am living in this world, and if this world already has a certain prejudice of me and an idea of me, then it's really hard for me to go through it.

I don't want people talking about me, for good or bad.

I've had nights where it's very obvious that I'm the good guy, but I'm still booed, and you can kind of make a checklist about reasons why they're booing me, and one of the evident ones is because of my name and where I'm from.

I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation - I don't care if my garbageman is gay or straight as long as he picks up the garbage.

Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life.

I don't Google myself, but I've heard that people think I'm gay. I've heard it all.

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

I hate it when people call me a teen queen.