Frank Vincent Quotes

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.' So I'm at the level of fame where people kind of know who I am, but they confuse me with other people.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

The diva tag just won't go away. I think that's because people want me to be like that. It makes it more interesting if I have thrown a phone at somebody or a water bottle. Sadly that's just not me.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

People get it twisted. They see the baseball stuff, and they don't see you as a human being. They see you as someone that just plays baseball.

One time, I went to an audition, and I stated my name, and the lady was like, 'Oh, that name sounds really familiar. I've seen you on TMZ.' Her first perception of me was what she had heard.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

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

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

I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own.