Kristen Wiig Quotes

I never fail to find it weird when people recognise me.

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

Having to deal with people all of a sudden knowing who we were and knowing our music and all the rest of it was definitely something that we had to get used to.

You know, I've just about got used to the fact that people in Britain know who I am on some level, but the notion that there's any kind of international recognition is still slightly bizarre to me.

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.

All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody like, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things.

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. I don't fit that mould.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

I'm used to the public knowing me, knowing about me.

I don't want people to look at me as someone who is just this celebrity person.

I like the fact that my work in Ghost is famous, and people know it, and we have our crowd. But I am not as antsy about getting recognized on the street as I might have once been.

I hate to consider myself a celebrity.

I do get recognized a lot in public. And that's just kind of weird to me.

This celebrity thing has been interesting. It's hard to get used to, because I don't see myself as a celebrity.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

If you're on the cover of any magazine, you certainly get recognized more.

I'm very well known in the industry and relatively well known by people who are aficionados and what not, but outside of that - no.

Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal.

There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.

I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.