Rhys Ifans Quotes

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

For me, I've got no interest in being a celebrity, and I have no interest in doing photographs, going to this party or that.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

I've never been interested in celebrity.

I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.

I don't mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movie. But besides that, I don't like those kinds of things at all. Celebrity status is not really something that appeals to me.

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 don't really think of myself or picture myself as a Hollywood person.

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

I'm not really into the celebrity lifestyle.

I don't necessarily view myself as a 'famous' person, I look at like Tom Cruise or Julia Roberts and think to myself, now that's a celebrity.

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

Everybody tells me, 'You're famous.' And I answer, 'I'm not Angelina Jolie!'

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

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

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.

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.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

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 really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

I never wanted to work with celebrities. I have no interest. I don't really care about their egos and their publicists.

I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.