Thomas Bernhard Quotes

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.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

People will know you for whatever they want to know you for.

I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed.

For me, there are worse things than being pigeonholed as the nice guy.

When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.

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.

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

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

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.

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

People just associate me with comedy - not that I mind. I don't mind that at all.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

I was stuck with the dark glasses. They took all these pictures that went around the world. I guess once you become successful, you don't want to change anything too drastically.

How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

Fame is a problem of perspective.

Some people have such strong memories of me as a young actor, that it's hard to see me as anything else.

The 'Playboy' affiliation will probably stick for the rest of my life to some extent.

Young man, make your name worth something.

If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.

When I worked with anybody like Woody Allen, there's the name, and your understanding of who they are before you meet them, that stays in your head a little bit.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

Popularity means people think they know you.