Paul Kagame 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.

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

All celebrities are real people behind everything.

The modern politician is less interested in being a hero than a superstar. Heroes walk alone; stars derive their status from approbation.

I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

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.

The hardest part of fame and success is adapting to the people around you that's changing. It changes the way people look at you from how they used to look at you. They listen to you on the radio, they look at you on TV and when people speak on you in a good light, you have a couple people who hold grudges.

What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

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 whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you - and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't want to take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.

When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

Celebrity is very weird.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me.