Quotes About Public image

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

I don't kiss on screen. Period.

I think that 'celebrity' and 'chef' should be a permanent oxymoron.

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

I'm a big Leonardo DiCaprio fan. And if I could have a career like his... he's amazing. And not only his career, his public persona and how he carries himself.

My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about.

You see those magazines, 'Oh, look at so-and-so without makeup, Halle Berry without makeup.' It's so crazy to wake up in the morning and have that thought - 'Do I need to put makeup on? Do I need to do something because I know people are going to know who I am?'

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

I think Kathie Lee Gifford had a line at Wal-mart, and Monica Lewinsky had a line of handbags.

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

Messi is as famous as any footballer has ever been, and yet, when it comes down to it, we don't know much about him. I read that he is a family man and likes to walk his dogs, but beyond that, he's a mystery, really. I like that.

People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

I am not a bimbo actress like some people out there have made me look like.

I want to show people my successful side, but I want to show you my bipolar side, too.

I think there's a misconception that I eat everything. The one or two bites that you see me take, that's it.