Guy Fieri Quotes

I'm not an actress, I'm a girl who was on reality TV.

I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

You know what, I've always been a smarty-pants, and the only thing that goes wrong now is that people know that I play a doctor on TV and so they quickly call me out on the fact that I really think I am a doctor.

There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.

If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle.

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

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

I'm a sex symbol. Is that wild? It blows me away. I mean, I've always known it, I just figured nobody else did.

I try to be more goofy when I'm on set now that I'm more comfortable. In real life, I'm so goofy and super weird. I'm never mean but people don't see the weird side of me.

I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality.... So I knew that I had to create some characters.

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

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.

I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

I guess people wonder if I'm the same on camera as I am off, and I'm pretty much the same, I really am. But that's always asked of me.

What I'm saying is that, unlike a lot of portrayals of me, I'm not hiding behind the sunglasses. I'm out there working. I'm not trying to sell anybody anything, but I do realize we're entertainers.