Andy Rooney Quotes

I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for what I was being recognised for.

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

More than anything else, being famous just didn't agree with me.

It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.

I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.

No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.

Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your personal life. You can be photographed at any moment.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

When you get quick fame and success and exposure, it makes you feel dizzy, and I didn't want to lose my balance 'cause that's something I've been struggling with for so many years. I'm not fond of the idea of making it in Hollywood. That's not my aim; otherwise, I would have settled down in Los Angeles.

The paparazzi don't care about me.

When I'm in London, it feels like I am that character who is 'Tom Odell.'

I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.

I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.

When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

I can't go anywhere without being recognized.

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.