Richard Madden Quotes

I don't really resent being on the red carpet as much as I do having to deal with the paparazzi.

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

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.

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.

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

I see all the red carpet paparazzi stuff and I'm like, 'Really? Do I have to?!' I like to work and I know that's part of the job. But you kind of take it in stride.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

I hate red-carpet photographs!

I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines.

I'm not really into the celebrity lifestyle.

I'm obsessed with celebrities and fame. I always will be.

I hate the showbiz scene.

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

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

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'