Lynda Carter Quotes

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

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.

Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.

Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.

I started with the Oakland A's back in 1971 and there was press at every game and there were cameras on me when I was that young. So with 20 years being MC Hammer, I'm comfortable with cameras so when the camera goes on, I continue doing what I'm doing.

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un-tint my car windows - or at least opt for a lighter shade.

The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.

I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

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

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'