Grace Kelly Quotes

I don't know how people recognize me.

Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.

I don't think a lot of people know personally who I am.

My name is well known, but my image is not, because the image presented to the public is very twisted and far from reality. So, not many recognize me on the street. And I don't usually walk around in the streets, either.

People ask, "What do you think about being called Puff Mommy?" Puff's a very successful young man, so I don't have a problem if that's what they wanna call me. If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.

First of all, I'm not a heartthrob. If you saw me in high school, you wouldn't say I'm a heartthrob. Having a hit song, the minute you're famous, you're a heartthrob. I know you don't believe me, but I honestly don't consider myself a heartthrob.

It's just hard to look at yourself and guess how you're going to be perceived by other people sometimes. I do my best to let people know that I'm approachable, but I'm a human being just like anybody else. Sometimes people forget that. They forget that you're a person and they treat you like this celebrity thing. But I have to be patient with that, and I try to be.

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.

It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I'm not like George Clooney.

People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

I've never looked at myself as this pop candy type.

I don't walk around the street thinking, 'I'm Michael Madsen,' but then again, I am that guy, and sometimes people do take notice of me. Sometimes it's really not comfortable.

I'm used to the public knowing me, knowing about me.

I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. If anything I'm a minor celebrity or a TV star or whatever.

I think I've proven that I'm more than just a TV singer. I was always more than that, even before I went on TV.

I never call myself a Kennedy cousin. In fact, when I signed my contract with Bravo, I made it very clear that they were not allowed in promos to refer to me as a Kennedy cousin. I'm not that person. I don't feel it.

In the Middle East, I can't walk down the street without being recognized. In the States, I'm totally fine going out.

I'm a sex symbol. Is that wild? It blows me away. I mean, I've always known it, I just figured nobody else did.

As someone who has never been in a gossip magazine, I do not deserve the contempt of the term 'celebrity.'

Eventually, people have to realize I'm not different than the person next door, except that more people know my name.

Even when I was a kid, I thought of myself as a celebrity.