Harshvardhan Rane Quotes

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

I always wanted to be the center of attention - you know actors, ugh.

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.

I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.

What we are as actors, for better and for worse, is visible.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

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.

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.

Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.

I trust that the time may never come when the love of fame shall cease to be the sovereign passion of public men.