Roger Kahn Quotes

I love hearing my song on the radio the first time, but when it comes on again, I change the station. I already have so much of the spotlight on me. I don't need any more.

The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.

The theatre show-biz types don't change much, no matter what era we're in. The question of how you balance being in show business with your personal life isn't very different.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.

It has taken me time to get used to the limelight.

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you get, the more noticed you are. It's kind of like a Catch-22.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

I'm not interested in the limelight.

After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight.

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person.

Show business is my life.

I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

To stand in the spotlight of public attention means not just accepting the light but the heat.

I mostly go under the radar, which is fantastic because I would not be a good famous person.

I never wanted this... to be in the public eye.

I think there's some people that absolutely love attention, and I'm not necessarily one of those people, but we're so, so lucky to be able to do this with our lives. There are certain aspects that maybe are not amazing, like having to represent us.

You get your time in the limelight but you don't know how long it's going to last. It's great, but you have to put up with a lot.

I'm just a person that played a game in the spotlight.