Roxane Gay Quotes

I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy.

I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.

It's always a shock to me when I get recognized.

It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

I don't have to walk around in hats or find remote places to go for lunch! I don't get recognised that often.

I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.

I don't think a lot of people know personally who I am.

I'm used to the public knowing me, knowing about me.

People would be amazed by the ordinary life William and I live. I do my own shopping. Sometimes, when I come away from the meat counter in my local supermarket, I worry someone will snap me with their phone. But I am determined to have a relatively normal life, and if I am lucky enough to have children, they can have one, too.

A few people know me, and the few people that do know me only know me because they dig my stuff.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to walking into the local shop or a local restaurant and having three or four people recognize me.

I just want to be a normal lad and not known as 'that bloke off the telly.'

One day, walking through the Bronx streets, I just realized that people were stopping me, taking pictures, and noticing me from across the street. I can't even use public transportation anymore, so I kind of stopped going places and started going straight to the studio, going home, and telling people I can't go anywhere anymore.

I did not expect to become a celebrity or be known by the public at all.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I never, ever did.

I was a very private person. I never had an open social media account. So, for me to walk down the street and have people say, 'Hey, Tan!' I turn around thinking, 'Do I know you?'

I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.

I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.

Overnight, I became a public figure.