Albert Brooks Quotes

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for 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.

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

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.

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I never, ever did.

As someone who has never been in a gossip magazine, I do not deserve the contempt of the term 'celebrity.'

We're living in a time when the most famous people in the world have no specific skill set and are known for living their lives in front of the world. How strange is that? The appeal makes sense to me - it's like 'The Truman Show,' getting a chance to peak into someone's bedroom or see the way someone fights with their husband.

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

I hate all the red carpet stuff. It's weird, because it's part of what's expected of you now.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

I don't do celebrity.

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

I don't get celebrities not understanding that the paparazzi are doing their job.

I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

I never care about myself out in public when I get the paparazzi swarming me.