Ben Roethlisberger Quotes

This is what I would say to my pupil: 'You have become only your fame and left behind most of who you were. How are you going to deal with that? Will you lose that person forever? Have you become someone else without really knowing it? Do you always have to stay in character for people to like you? Do you know that you are in character?'.

When I'm sitting in bed watching 'Chopped' - that Brie I know. But I don't know the Brie in sky-high heels on a carpet with a bunch of people screaming at me. I wonder what she's like.

We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.

I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

Once you become a celebrity, you are no longer a person, but an archetype.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

I never really created a difference between Shaffer Smith, my actual name, and Ne-Yo. They are kind of one in the same. It's been a bit of a gift and a curse. As far as Shaffer Smith is concerned, I've never viewed myself as a celebrity.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Before I turned 30, I worked to create Ksenia Sobchak. Ksenia Sobchak turned out to be appalling and terrible in some respects, but nice in others.

No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.

As Devin, the person, I'm very different from my artistic self.

It wasn't much fun being Charlotte Go-Go. I like being Charlotte Caffey better.

I would love to break away from my comic image.

There's two Michaels: there's, like, my Michael. And the Michael that everyone else sees. Michael the entertainer.

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

It's one of those things that gets written off as humorous when you watch a child entertainer try to redefine themselves, but it can be an intense identity crisis.

Sometimes I wish I was one of those artists like David Bowie. They're not putting their private lives out there; it's about show and entertainment. But an alter ego is very dangerous for me. Because I am the guy who will become lost in that.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

I do feel kind of like I have a split identity in that there's Van Jones, who has this big public role and tries to inspire millions of people to do new stuff together. And then there's just me: a pretty quiet, shy, retiring person.

If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.