Dwyane Wade Quotes

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

The version of me you see on TV now and in my feature films is a pretty happy guy, isn't he?

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.

I think it's my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.

The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

I think, as an actress, whether you want to or not, whether you're ready for it or not, people are going to look at what you're doing, and they are going to look up to you, and it's not even really about you; it's who you portray on the screen.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.

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

If you're on TV, you can't complain, right? And I understand that, and it's true to a certain degree.

Some people will never take Madonna seriously - just as many never took Marilyn Monroe seriously. Novelty images - especially that of a sex symbol - are hard to erase.

I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who spoke the truth.

People perceive actresses in a different manner when they are portrayed glamorously. I don't want that to happen with me.

Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.

People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play.

As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.

The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.

My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.

We are the shadow cast by real people. And that shadow changes shape as the news cycle changes shape, so you always have fresh dirt to dig in.

People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of dealing with the public. This is something that can't be taught in a book. If they can produce after they've won over the public. If you can live up to your ballyhoo, you've got it made.