Theo James Quotes

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

If you want to be really famous you have to go on TV every day.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere.

Being on TV is kind of the best job in the world.

There's no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right.

We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.

Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.

If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didn't want to be a singer. I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.

All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?'

I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

I think people respect my work, but I was never in one of those movies that made me a star.

Your lineage and surname become irrelevant after your first film. Audiences do not care.

In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.

I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.