Kristin Bauer van Straten Quotes

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

There's a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is the unfortunate flipside to it.

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

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary.

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

Celebrity is very weird.

All celebrities are real people behind everything.

I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.

How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?

Honestly, man, I'm not somebody who wants the celebrity. I could really care less about that stuff. I know everyone says it, but I get overwhelmed by it all sometimes.

When it comes to the fame side of things. I don't think anybody, whether they're famous or not, could claim to understand that phenomenon or have any sort of power over it.

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

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.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach.

I'm so not a celebrity.

I never had that star aura.

When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue.

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.