Lou Reed Quotes

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

Celebrity culture is... it's not something that I'm attracted to. I guess I don't think of myself in that way, but potentially other people do. I feel I'm at the far periphery of that.

I like being a cult figure.

It feels really strange when I walk by newsstands and I don't see any magazines with me in it!

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go, 'Oh, isn't she dead?' And then I walk up, and they're like, 'Whoa.' I can't really complain... because I've made myself into a historical action figure. I was like, 'Yeah, come on in!'

I never had that star aura.

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.

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

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.

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

I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

There's a big difference to me between the people who are famous and just accept the fact that it comes with the territory of what they do, and the people who actively seek it out, who intentionally put themselves in the position of being on camera and being famous.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.