Joan Hickson Quotes

Most people don't know who the hell I am. But that's not really important.

I am never honored. My career is hilarious to me. I am either under the radar or over the radar.

I guess I've always had a - not really thought of myself as this big star, big identity in the game.

I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

I'd prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.

Back home, no one looks at me as a star. At least I know my mother doesn't.

I really liked it best when I was a nobody.

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.

Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.

I never get recognized for 'Mean Girls.' I can be walking around with Daniel Franzese, who's in the movie and a friend of mine, and people will come up to him and start freaking out and have no idea who I am.

I'm not that big a celebrity. I'm just an ordinary person.

I don't want to be a VIP. I want to be an LIP, a Less Important Person.

I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.

I'd rather be someone that's underrated than overrated.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm a guy doing a job.

I'm just the same guy... I don't need to be a celebrity or a superstar.

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did.