Prunella Scales Quotes

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

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

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

I don't care about awards and all the attention being a 'celebrity' gets you. It's just part of the job.

I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.

For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.

I hate fame.

I don't really want to be a celebrity.

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

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.

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.

I enjoy the work; I just don't like the glamour side of it. I find that very difficult to handle.

I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.

I'm not interested in the idea of celebrity.

The world of celebrity that comes with the world of art is not particularly interesting to me.

I hate to consider myself a celebrity.

This celebrity thing has been interesting. It's hard to get used to, because I don't see myself as a celebrity.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

I'm so not a celebrity.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.