Jim Parsons Quotes

I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.

People think you're really confident because you're an actress or whatever, but I'm, like, the worst. Although the good thing about being recognizable is that people approach me, which is good.

I don’t care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

A lot of people in America don't know me, and that's something I have to overcome.

I don't think I am even that popular. In fact, people must be wondering who the hell Nia Sharma is!

I want the whole country to love me and I have no qualms in admitting it.

Popularity means people think they know you.

As you become famous you lose some of your anonymity, which is wonderful for an actor to have because you can observe people and also people don't have such a strong sense of who you are and that sort of thing.

I was always told that if people don't want a picture with you, or they don't want an autograph from you, that doesn't mean you're not doing anything good.

People do come up to me quite a lot. I get called all of it. I rarely get called my name; it's usually "Hey, Dr. Edwards!" or "Algernon." The most common thing is, "You're the black doctor on that show!" I'll take any of it, because I've definitely been called much worse things.

I've got this brilliant thing where I go, 'I'm Robbie Williams', and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I'm just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent.

I'm not a big Hollywood star. I'm an actor. I'm called a star. That's not what I am. First of all I'm a human being; my profession is acting. People give you titles. They say you're an up and coming star, then they say you're a star, then they say you're a washed-up star. So I don't get caught up in what I'm called. My job, my profession, is acting.

I love attention.

To be honest with you, girls didn't really start paying attention to me until after 'Clueless' came out. Then, all of a sudden, it was different. And that's the honest-to-goodness truth. I wasn't very popular until that happened. I have zero pickup lines. My game, I guess you could say, is my work.

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!

I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary.

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

There are so many people in the world and not everybody knows who I am, some people do, but I just don't think a lot of people know who I am.

Every single day, I get asked by people to do 'the face,' so I'm bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life.