Rick Riordan Quotes

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

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.

I don't care about being famous.

I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.

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.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, 'Why is that person staring at me?'

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who will be invited to a lifetime of cocktail parties.

I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

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

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

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.

Luckily, I don't think that I'm too famous. I can still live my life pretty comfortably. Fame has never really ever appealed to me. I think it's easy to see that it's not a great thing to have.

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

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.