George Harrison Quotes

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

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

I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

Celebrity is very weird.

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

I'm not in the business of trying to be a celebrity. I like entertaining and being in movies. I like when people leave a movie and talk about it with friends. My biggest struggle is the press... its an odd thing and something I've had to learn a lot about.

There's a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is the unfortunate flipside to it.

Bollywood is just like any other industry. It is just that people in this industry are constantly in the public eye.

Which is worse - being a has-been or being the guy interviewing a has-been?

As someone who has never been in a gossip magazine, I do not deserve the contempt of the term 'celebrity.'

Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it.

I have to talk about my movies. I have to give interviews to promote what I'm doing. But no one really knows my personal life. And if you don't have a personal life I feel bad for you.

You know, if you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are. I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

Do people think I'm cool because I was in a movie when I was a child? No. Well, maybe a little bit more than they used to. There's definitely a nostalgia factor.

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

You know, I look at Britney Spears who can't even drive without paparazzi in her face, and if I ever get to that level, which I don't expect, but if it does happen and success does happen to come my way, then I'm going to be prepared.