Kevin Mitnick Quotes

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

Honestly, I don't think we see ourselves as stars. That's what the media tags us as. I personally don't think too much about it.

People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

I like wearing beautiful clothes, but that does not translate into my work. People don't like to see me as a glam doll in my movies. My audience and the media love me with two different perceptions. It's a strange, crazy situation.

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

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

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

There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.

I find it so weird when the media calls me 'small screen super star.' I don't think I'm one!

My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.

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

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

I don't consider myself a star.

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

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.

The bad boy image is something given to me by the media. I have been in relationships earlier, even for as long as three years. I am not saying I am a saint. I am like any other guy, I guess. Unfortunately, every time I even meet a person, it is reported as a link-up.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.