Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...

You have not quite lived in this ridiculously silly celebrity culture until you've been told one day how loved you are and the next day how hated you are - and sometimes by the same individual.

A lot of things have been said about me. People are going to talk, and that's a good thing; I want people to talk.

Everybody gets talked about. Jesus Christ got talked about. It's just what happens. It's just part of it. And if people aren't talking, it's like, who are you? So I really let the people talk.

You know that once you're successful, there's going to be good things and bad things that people say and, honestly, to me it doesn't really matter.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

You know, if you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are. I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

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.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

All the people know Tomba, but not the real Alberto.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.