Dan Fogelberg Quotes

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

Ideally, I would like to not be in the public eye.

I don't like being a celebrity.

I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.

As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to walk out of a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

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.

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

I don't call up the press and say, 'Look at me!'

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

I don't like being in the limelight. It is not something extraordinary. It is just my habit.

I mostly go under the radar, which is fantastic because I would not be a good famous person.

I don't seek the limelight.

My life for so many years was a reality show.

I feel like I grew up in quite a public way in front of audiences.

I don't like the media attention.