Quotes About Perception

I think actors always like to think they don't bring the character home, and then their family all laugh and tell you otherwise.

It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family, ' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.

We live our entire lives thinking we know those closest to us. But do we ever really?

I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference.

Keep in mind ... to a dog you are family to a cat you are staff.

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

The thing I like least about being famous is being overly scrutinized for everything I say and do.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

I actually can't think of anything worse than being famous... Fame really distorts your perception of yourself.

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?

Often you see a famous actor who says they produced something, when all they did was claim to have an idea at a dinner party and make three phone calls.

I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.

I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet