Sophie Okonedo Quotes

My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I never, ever did.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

I was never a celebrity - just a working actor.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

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

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

I was never about being a celebrity. Maybe when I was very young, but that goes away quickly. I've met almost every famous person I want to meet.

The whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I'm part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.

There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.

I hate to consider myself 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.

Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

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

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.

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

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.