Virginie LeDoyen Quotes

Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.

When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image.

Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

Why don't you compare me to Sally Jessy Raphael?

Just because I live in L.A .and I live in Hollywood doesn't mean I have to have a Hollywood life.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.

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.

I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

Actresses are kind of a little crazy.

I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

You get nit-picked in the media. Stats are always up saying he doesn't drive it straight enough or hit enough greens or whatever it is. Then you have to perform, because if you don't perform, then you're off the Tour.

No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing me to other artists.

Name me a person in public life who doesn't have critics. Especially women in public life.

For women, style codes are not merely about being smart or presentable, they are a platform for judgment.

I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that aren't really true.