Lisa Stansfield Quotes

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

Media is a powerful thing, and you see it with so many actors, where one role that brings them a lot of attention is sort of how they get defined.

I can understand getting compared to the Kardashians.

I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.

I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.

I don't consider myself a celebrity. I'm just a journalist.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

I've been approached by many different people, but I don't really want to be known as a collaboration dude.

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

When your name is out there like that, guys are going to want to see what you're about.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.

If people are talking about me, I want it to be because of the work I'm doing and not the person I'm seeing.

I really want to be known for my work. That sounds like such a... cliche, and I've thought about how else I can say it to make it sound less hackneyed. But that's what it comes down to... I know people are interested in these things.