Alistair Overeem Quotes

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.

Just because of 'Rangeela' and 'Daud,' it can't be said that I am a sex symbol.

The ball will tell you who the best players are, not the contracts, not the media.

I wonder who is going to finish second.

I often think people don't know what to think of me, and in fact this is precisely the objective of many of my creations. Even back in the days with Lady Starlight, my original partner, we aimed to bemuse. This feeling of bemusement - it's neither good nor bad. It just is. Whether critics realize it or not, they've been in a very long argument since my public birth.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

Whether it happened so or not I do not know; but if you think about it you can see that it is true.

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

You know, people are saying, they don't understand, really, what I'm doing.

If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.

The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

Everybody is making predictions who is going to win. I am no different than you.

Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.

I understand that people have a critical mind towards my position. And receive a lot of confusion too.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.

Whatever is unknown is magnified.

On the BSkyB bid, Rupert Murdoch is now in town in London seeking to sort things out. I would simply say to him, look how people feel about this. Look how the country has reacted with revulsion to the revelations. So do the decent and sensible thing and reconsider, think again, about your bid for BSkyB.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.'