Christopher Timothy Quotes

For the most part, people don't know who I am.

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.

I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was.

You get nervous when you're identified with something that is really great and positive for so long. You don't want to not be that person, but there are going to be other roles in your career.

Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.

I'm not just a child star. And I'm not just someone's sister. And I'm not just a teen mom.

I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.

I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'

Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I was stuck with the dark glasses. They took all these pictures that went around the world. I guess once you become successful, you don't want to change anything too drastically.

I've spent the better part of two decades running both toward and away from an image - the Hollywood image - that had come to define me.

I got a lot of notoriety early on. Much of my career I was just trying to prove I was as good as the world thought I was.

I know people started suspecting whether I was a woman or a man. All the honour I earned - I lost.

I think that if I was only known for who I was as a football player and only that, it just would have been a tragedy.

Let's be honest: the label of model-daughter-of-celebrity mother is... you know, I don't want to have that label. It's not who I am. It's not my values to go off someone else's name and to be pigeonholed as that. So in a way, that has really pushed me to be more independent.

I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.

As a star-son it's a constant struggle to move away from being known as Vinod Khanna's son and create my own space.