Jason Bateman Quotes

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.

Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.

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

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she's famous enough to have some power, but not so famous she has to deal with people buzzing around her life.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don't see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.

I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.

Like, if you are a celebrity, then anyone will let you be in a film or on a TV show, and if you're an actor, chances are if you are successful, you are becoming a celebrity.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

Lohan and I talk about just things that happen. It's Lindsay. She's great. I went from not knowing who she was to not being able to get rid of her because she's everywhere. She's on everything.

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

Everybody wants to be a movie star. I bet if you ask that guy would he like to be a movie star, he'd say, 'Sure.'

My filthy little secret is that I've always wanted to be famous and I don't get nervous being on TV.

I wanna be more of a pop public figure, iconic kinda dude.

I've never had issues with stardom.

I want to be famous.

It all depends what you look like. If you look like hell and walk down the street, they think you're just another bum. If you're being cool, you TV people don't get recognized. But if you're going to sign autographs and records, then you'll have some trouble.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I never, ever did.

Everybody wants to be on the front cover of 'People' and 'Rolling Stone.'

When The Cranberries got really big in Ireland, it became difficult for me to be there with all the photographers and paparazzi.