Tarana Burke Quotes

We're not show-business people. We have a life.

I'm a real-life 'Hannah Montana.'

I am a normal guy. I muck about; I play around with my nieces. The only thing is I need to be professional when I am out and conduct myself in a certain way. I still live a normal lifestyle.

I had a pretty normal, non-Hollywood life for most of my 20s in San Francisco.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

I think everybody has a secret life.

'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.

I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.

When I'm not acting, I like to go home and be really normal. So I usually grow out my hair until I get the next part.

Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

People would be amazed by the ordinary life William and I live. I do my own shopping. Sometimes, when I come away from the meat counter in my local supermarket, I worry someone will snap me with their phone. But I am determined to have a relatively normal life, and if I am lucky enough to have children, they can have one, too.

People have seen me on-field, but no one knows about my off-field life. People rarely know that personality of me.

Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal '10 to 5' job and put my education to good use.

When I'm on tour, people see me in one way, but in normal life I doubt people even recognize me.

In my normal life, I am a private person doing a proper job.

I'm kind of like the Lone Ranger or Batman. I can just go to my mansion and jump out in my uniform and sing on weekends.

I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.

I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

I have always considered my career self and my personal self as two different and separate people. There's a Jayne Mansfield at home, a wife and devoted mother, and there's Jayne the sex symbol, which is my career. I have always kept them completely apart and separate.

I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.