Mark Pellegrino Quotes

People all want to hug me. They want to touch The GC!

I am beloved by millions.

It's funny how you call me a celebrity. Oh man.

All over the world I'm known. Whenever I go out on the street people come up to me and say... 'Hi, Beave,' and that doesn't bother me at all. It's something that I embrace.

If my fans want to call me a love God, then so be it!

People come up to me in the street and use words like 'legend.'

A lot of people recognise me now, especially the younger generations, definitely. But it's not that common.

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

Celebrity is something I've never been into, and never will be.

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.

Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

The fact that people actually want my autograph is crazy.

People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.

All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody like, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things.

That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.

There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'

It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase.

The cameras used to pass by me; now they're stopping for me.

Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.

There's a certain section of the public who spot me in the street but it's never horrible. I'm not a soap villain who gets spat at.

Wherever I go, people behave like a very big superstar has entered, and I am never able to believe that they all are talking about me.