Linus Torvalds Quotes

Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.

When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.

I just want to be a normal lad and not known as 'that bloke off the telly.'

I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.

I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

I do like to fly under the radar. When I walk around town, the only people I want to recognise me and call me by my name are the folks at Starbucks.

I think that's the thing. I don't want to date a celebrity. I want to date a normal person. So I'm looking for a normal person.

I'm a private person, but I don't feel afraid to walk out of my door or anything. I get recognised occasionally, but not overwhelmingly so.

The thing is when you're... well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don't really think about whether or not you're qualified. They just want somebody that will be a drawing card for the audience. So it's up to you to decide whether or not it's foolish to get up and speak to these people.

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 really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.

In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.

I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable.

I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!

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.

Writers are not celebrities, so you don't expect to walk down the street and hear, 'Oh my God, there's Sylvia Day.' You prefer to be anonymous.

If I get recognized, it's because someone notices me at the checkout counter at the grocery store. I really live a very normal life and have been able to keep my privacy.

I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.

I went from unknown to having no anonymity.

You know, some of the performances, I have put myself on the world stage a bit more.

I walk around a lot. People come up to me and say 'Hi,' but not that often. I mean, I get it plenty often, but sometimes I wish they'd come up to me more! I mean, I'm just a regular guy.

If I am out in the street or buying bread or taking a taxi, no one knows who I am.

When I go to parties people recognize me and that's another contact, another tool in my bag of tricks. I don't even have a publicist. I work it.

I consider myself a private person most of the time so it's hard to perform in a very public situation and have to do... public appearances and speeches depending on what it is and what the situation is.