John Rzeznik Quotes

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.

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.

I haven't had the whole 'famous' thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.

I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.

I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

I didn't want my daughter to grow up in that intense attention - wherever we went, we'd get paparazzi. There are bigger, better superstars in America, so I thought, 'I'll go there for a quick holiday, and relax.' And my holiday just turned into me loving it and wanting to stay there longer and longer.

If someone asked if I I'd want no one to recognise me anymore, I'd take that option, I think.

The life of fame was never meant for me.

I definitely don't get recognized so I don't have to deal with that.

for some people life outside the spotlight is death.

Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.

Whenever I'm in L.A, I see Jessica Biel.

A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it's essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you're going to be an actor.

I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse.

I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

I'm not a star, I'm an actor.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.