J. K. Rowling Quotes

The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

I have great fans that come up to me, and they just want me to sign stuff. I have a restaurant in Beverly Hills - Prego - and they come in all the time asking for me to see when I'm going to show up. That doesn't really scare me.

I have the ability to move around without being recognized all the time. I mean, you want to be famous - but not too famous.

Winning 'I'm A Celeb' has massively affected my love life because it's very rare to meet someone that doesn't recognise me now because the jungle is so big.

I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.

I'm at that great level where fans will stop and say 'hi,' which I love, but the paparazzi don't care, which is incredible.

It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your picture on a bus.' It's tricky: You're excited by the possibilities, but you don't want to get too crazy.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.

Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.

I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me.

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

People recognize me. Most people are really nice. Sometimes people say, 'Hi, Chelsea.'

I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away.