Carrie Coon Quotes

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

It's funny how you call me a celebrity. Oh man.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.

The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you - and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.

Nobody sane wants just to be famous.

Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

Fame is a very unnatural human condition.

It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

When the success of 'Crazy Rich' hit, it's like everybody knows exactly who you are, and the way that they speak to you is different. I've stayed the same throughout. It's just people's perception of you changes.

The hardest thing about becoming famous is trying not to lose yourself. The thing I like best about it is the recognition of my work.

I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

Fame just ain't a natural situation. But I shouldn't have worried because everyone thought I was a bit famous even before I'd done anything; people just assumed I was famous.

Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.

When people say I've become a star, it takes time to sink in.

Fame is a problem of perspective.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

I never had that star aura.

I was overwhelmed when people started to know who I was.