Kurt Angle Quotes

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!'

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

Sometimes it's hard to get people to take me seriously as an actor when they just see me as this WWE muscle head.

Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.

People would expect me to be this ditzy, bubblegum-pop girl. I was selling myself short.

I don't know why I have been branded a glam doll.

You're seen a certain way in the acting world. To them, you're still a football player and not taken as seriously. They think you're just doing it to be a celebrity, to keep your name out there. They don't think you'll prepare.

I never used to be taken seriously as a Swiss person.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie.

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

I keep telling everyone that I want to start a revolution but no one is taking me seriously. If I had black skin and an afro, would you take me seriously? If I was an Arab waving a hand grenade, would you take me seriously?

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

My first reaction to being pigeonholed or pushed into certain confines is to be like, 'No, I'm the opposite,' you know? Like, don't put me in a stereotypical black-girl category, because I'm not like that; I'm doing this thing over here.

A lot of my life has been, 'Fran plays football.' But no, Fran is a normal human being, and I need to live my life.

Guys are more apt to test me than they are to test a Charles Barkley. I think I have to go out and prove myself all the time, and that's fine, because I've had to prove myself my whole life.

It is a privilege that women fancy me, but I cannot sustain the chocolate boy image forever. I don't want to end up being known, like the late veteran Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan was, as the king of romance.

I didn't come up in a culture or society that looked on me as a movie star. I was the bad guy. I was fortunate enough to be cast in some roles that weren't bad, were positive.

Women often don't want to be typecast as the girl that's sad.

I wanted to prove I wasn't that person everyone wanted to stereotype me. You can slag me off, I talk about my upbringing now and try and do it in a way that inspires others, but I never felt good about it.