Quotes About Public

What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it's about negotiating with that illusion because, oftentimes, you encounter people who have encountered you, but you haven't encountered them. It's a little weird to find your footing.

I went to a football game, and people were shouting my dad's name, and I was like, 'What? Oh my God.'

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

Olivia Chow is no Jack Layton.

Who doesn't like the Olympics? Everyone does, but who is going to pay for it?

Neither a success nor by any means a failure, Roku will nevertheless ask public investors for money because they, too, have a right to dream that magic will become reality one day.

One minute you're nobody and the next thing you've got people following you around.

One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private - which is not the same as the public and the personal - but the public and the private... it's very, very much harder than it used to be to have things that are private and things that are public.

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

One time I had an awkward moment on purpose, you know, just to see what it feels like. I slipped getting out of my car at a big event. I got out of the car and fell face first into the street. A lot of cameras were on me. I was pretty embarrassed. I did it on purpose, though.

Only a consistent, ongoing, deep experience can make a lasting media brand: one that has a commitment from a core community and the respect of a larger reading public.

There's only one thing more embarrassing than the celebrities talking about politics; and that's politicians talking about anything other than politics.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

People just get to see me onstage, and they don't get whole of me.

If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

Taking pictures and stuff, I'm kind of like, shy, but you couldn't tell onstage.

I'm someone who is quite shy, and onstage I'm quite... extrovert.

When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

It seems like F1 is kind of going down that route, opening it up more to the public and letting them know what is going on, what you do, instead of just driving and going home.