Jacqueline de Ribes Quotes

I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.

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.

Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true.

I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.

I'm not a 'celebrity'. I'm not a big huge star and so when people see me it's usually to talk about something I've done and that's a great conversation to have.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

Once you become a celebrity, you are no longer a person, but an archetype.

Celebrity is very weird.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.

From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.

I'm not a big, huge star, and so when people see me, it's usually to talk about something I've done, and that's a great conversation to have. That's what we're doing it for.

I'm used to the public knowing me, knowing about me.

The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.

I don't like to be in the public eye or talk about my private life.

There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.

I hate to consider myself a celebrity.

I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.