Brie Larson Quotes

I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

As a naturally reserved and quiet person, it's definitely a challenge being thrust into this atmosphere of celebrity and everything that comes along with that. Some parts I'm resisting more than others but can't for much longer, so I'm just trying to find a way to make sense of it all.

I don't want to be that famous.

Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.

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

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.

I get uncomfortable and kind of scared sometimes of certain public situations because, since I've been on TV or I've appeared in some films, people think this boundary between us has been removed, and I owe them something.

I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting.

I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.

I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.

Fame gives you everything you never wanted.

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: 'Is that kid from 'Love Actually' there?' And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: 'Are you famous?' I don't know how to answer.

I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

People know me as 'Wipeout Girl' or 'Mercury Girl.' They never know my name, and sometimes, maybe that's a good thing.

It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your picture on a bus.' It's tricky: You're excited by the possibilities, but you don't want to get too crazy.

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

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

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