Donald Faison Quotes

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

I always wanted to be the center of attention - you know actors, ugh.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.

I hate to think of the day when nobody remembers me as an actor and I can't get good tables in restaurants.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

He [Marquis de Lafayette] has a canine appetite for popularity and fame.

If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.

People make too big a deal about me.

I don't feel any great need to dress in funny-looking clothes and be recognized as a star, nor do I get that much satisfaction out of hanging around all the main clubs so people can see who I am.

I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.

In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I love attention.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.

I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.