Venus Williams Quotes

Popularity means people think they know you.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

I don’t care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

A lot of people in America don't know me, and that's something I have to overcome.

It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

It's been a great advantage and a privilege to have the Tagore surname. Wherever you go, you are recognised.

The only difference is that I'm a celebrity, and I'm shown to the world. Apart from that, I think I'm like most women my age.

A lot of people ask me if I only get all this attention because of my dad. The answer is no.

Fame is a problem of perspective.

I realize I live in a bubble, and all the opportunities are there to me. And having done a number of popular TV series, I'm mildly famous in certain situations, and lots of doors open to me.

I don't think I'm that recognizable.

Some people have such strong memories of me as a young actor, that it's hard to see me as anything else.

You can be the coldest rapper, but if you're not known, you're nobody.

An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European countries for being an accomplice of the dissidents. None of these descriptions is important by itself; taken together, on the other hand, they mean something. And I must admit that I rather like what they mean.

People will know you for whatever they want to know you for.