Ali Fazal Quotes

I'm not good at being lionized, and when I'm in 'Grateful Dead'-type situations, that happens.

It's different hearing girls I don't even know scream my name.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

Every time my name is called, I get so many cheers, standing ovations, and a lot of hands are being clapped.

We're just actors, man, just part of things. We're just doing our jobs, like everyone else does their jobs. The adulation for us is much more because we are always in the public eye. But I never became an actor because I wanted people to scream out my name.

Yeah, I'm walking through the airport, I'm walking through the street, I'm driving in my car, people just start screaming at me - 'YEEEAAAHHH!'

It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

I don't think I'd ever be able to give up the spotlight.

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

The fans make the person a star.

Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.

It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.

Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

I liked being in the spotlight.

When you turn up in Leicester Square and there are 5,000 people screaming your name and holding placards, that's just weird. It's hard to find a place for it in your brain that makes any sense. I'm not really comfortable in that sort of situation.

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

I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.