Chris O'Dowd Quotes

I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.

I don't like being a celebrity.

It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online.

I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting.

If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

The normal 21-year-old doesn't have to worry about their night out being put on TMZ.

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

I never care about myself out in public when I get the paparazzi swarming me.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.

I haven't changed, but public life has. It used to be you'd go into a restaurant, and the owner would say, 'Do you mind if I take a picture of you and put it on my wall?' Sweet and simple. Now, everyone has a camera in their pocket.

I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.

Because we put ourselves in a movie or on TV, then it must mean we want to be completely open to the world. Sometimes, people will run up to you as if this is Disneyland and I'm a character. I understand their point of view, but it's difficult to explain how terrified it makes me. I'm so nervous.

The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.

I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.

Sure, every young person dreams about being famous, but nobody wants to be famous - unless they're Zsa Zsa Gabor - every single moment of every single day.

When I was about to be famous, I feared it on a few levels. I feared it because I didn't want people to lump me in with those people who'd do anything to be famous. I didn't like the word 'celebrity.' I feared intrusion, you know? Make me famous, and suddenly you can go through my trash bins.

We were at the level of fame where you just can't go anywhere.

Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person. I choose not to appear in anything publicly. Twitter's it!