Fame Misconception Quotes

Everybody tells me, 'You're famous.' And I answer, 'I'm not Angelina Jolie!'

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

People think I'm a celebrity. I'm not a celebrity.

People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?

It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie or because you're reading interviews from giantly, massively famous actors, but you don't just get offered parts, all the time. You actually have to work to get them.

It isn't me that people love. It's baseball.

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

People think because you're a celebrity, because you're on TV, because you're 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Men Alive, things like that, that we're bathing in champagne and taking limos door to door. But we're literally the same guys, just with much busier schedules.

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

People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.

I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.

People are interested in writing, and often there's an unjustifiable sense of people to believe my talking to them for the book is going to accord them any sort of fame. Which it won't. At the same time, they can be more circumspect if they know they're on the record.

Honestly, the biggest setback to my music career was people's perception that I was a reality TV star, not a rapper.

It's strange, somebody asked for my autograph the other day. Because I finished school and I'm not really doing anything at the moment, I was just kind of aimlessly wandering around London and these two guys who were about 30 came up and asked for my autograph. I was really quite proud at the time, and they wanted to take photos and stuff. And then they were sort of wandering around and I was kind of wandering around and I bumped into them about three times, and every single time their respect for me kept growing and growing and growing.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

It's always interesting when you play a part and then suddenly people think you're an authority on the subject.

I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I known for? My bit part.