Damon Dash Quotes

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

I'm not a Hollywood guy.

I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.

I don't want to be in Hollywood or anything like that.

You've got to swank in Hollywood.

I hate the showbiz scene.

I never pictured myself as an entertainer or a superstar or a model or anything like that.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared.

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

I've never been interested in celebrity.

Just because I live in L.A .and I live in Hollywood doesn't mean I have to have a Hollywood life.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm not somebody who, no matter where I go, there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world, and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

I don't want to go to Hollywood.

I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.