Karen Carpenter Quotes

I just think it's useful for people to know that even if you are off the telly you're just an ordinary person who uses the Tube.

I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'

I don't see that we're any different than many, many people that are out there. And it's hard to kind of accept something like we're larger than life, super-people or something like that.

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.

There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

The public talk colloquially, the public's grammar's not perfect. They kid around and I don't think they overly mark me down for that. They just see me as a normal guy.

Not everyone looks like Brad Pitt. There are people in the world that look like me. I think people feel that I could be living next door to them. That has much more effect on me.

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.

Having a reality TV show, everyone feels like they know you, but that's only 10% of my life. There's a whole other side of me that people don't see.

When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people around.

When you reach a certain age, and people see you on television, they look at you and think, 'Wow! Everything must be great!' Well, everything isn't always great. You can be hailed on the street corner, but you still have to go home and take out the garbage.

I get so many people coming up to me being like, Aahhh! And I'm like, what the hell? I'm just me!

I don't think about being a public persona too much - I just get on with what I'm doing.

These guys, just because we're NBA athletes, we're not superhumans.

Don't put celebrities up on this pedestal. We are human beings.

Acting is like any other profession. I do not think stars need to have any hang-ups in public. I do not like to be treated like someone special - and this I say because I am normal and not because I want to sound humble.

DDP was the common guy, the everyman, a blue-collar guy from New Jersey. He represented something that the average person could believe in, in a way that was a little unique.

I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.

I haven't talked to the press much. That's why I've gotten kind of a bad reputation. They look at me and think I don't give a damn. But I'm not comfortable with the attention.

I turn down so many things because I don't want people to get sick of me.

I'm one of those controversial celebs or whatever you want to call it, but I am actually a musician - people forget this.

When you are a public figure, relationships are a bit complicated.

Maybe I was always more than one person, or even two. Maybe being on TV was just my job. People find it hard to get their heads around that. A couple of times I have shone a light on the other sides of my life, but I have learned to be cautious about that. Because people are only comfortable with the Noel Edmonds they see on television.