Jeff Daniels Quotes

In Germany I am not so famous.

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.

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

It's been interesting. I went through a period where a lot of people would recognize me, and then when I had injures and my ranking dropped, not as many people did.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

I still think it's weird that people are interested in what I like and what I represent.

Fans always have an opinion of their own. We only try to live up to their expectations.

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.

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

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

I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore.

It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

I hate to toot my own horn but I just feel that I know people and I know fans and I don't feel there is that Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt barrier with me. I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.

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

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.

You really can't turn on TLC without seeing us.

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.