Sarah Lancashire Quotes

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

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.

There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

I'm an actress, not a celebrity.

I didn't become an actor to become a celebrity.

Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

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.

Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

I want people to know me through the movies I do. I want to be judged on that. If you start becoming famous for your personal life, that's when your career goes away.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

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.

What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.

To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.