Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.

In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

You're only famous in the eyes of others. Inside, you're still the same, and not a hundred million records or TV shows can change that. I think the only pitfall of fame is believing that it means something, and behaving like that.

If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.

I don't take myself seriously, and I think the ones that do, there's some sickness with people like that.

The day I say I'm famous is the day I sound like a fanny.

I'll never, ever think of myself as famous, even if I ever get to the point of George Clooney... because I Think you might go crazy if you start reffering to yourself in those terms.

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so.

I don't see myself as a famous person.

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

I really don't think I could get starstruck with anybody. Famous final words, but I just don't think I could.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

I don't want to be the guy who goes, 'Oh yeah, blah blah blah... everyone freaking well knows me.' Because that's not the case. Once in a while, someone will remember some silly thing I did and then they feel good. And they go, 'Oh, hey, Michael Bolton, I celebrate your whole catalog.' And I'm like, 'Great, great, I totally get it.'

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.