Nick Clegg Quotes

I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

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

People get it twisted. They see the baseball stuff, and they don't see you as a human being. They see you as someone that just plays baseball.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

Popularity means people think they know you.

I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

People label you the way they know you best.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

All the people know Tomba, but not the real Alberto.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.