Finn Wolfhard Quotes

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

Everybody wants to be a celebrity, which is why we have this phenomenon of social media, where nobody wants to be private. We all want to be seen.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

Only traumatised people want to be famous.

There's a big difference to me between the people who are famous and just accept the fact that it comes with the territory of what they do, and the people who actively seek it out, who intentionally put themselves in the position of being on camera and being famous.

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'

If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.

I was in this hamster wheel of being famous for being famous, much like a reality star. You would put me on a talkshow, I would say outrageous things. I was just perpetuating myself as a celebrity, and I found that really empty.

Some people don't care why they are famous; they just want to be famous, and that makes my skin crawl a bit.

I've been wanting to do some type of video about the idea that YouTubers have to have some kind of personality disorder, something right, to do what we do. Putting ourselves on camera all the time, being so open on camera all the time, having conventions with our name in it. There has to be something.

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

Some people call me a publicity hound.

Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.

In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.