Jackie Earle Haley Quotes

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model.

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose.

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

Why am I a star? It can't be because of looks.

I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.

I want to be strong enough to cope with the roles, but I don't want to be cast as the guy that takes his shirt off.

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.

I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.

I don't want to become known as just a body.

I don't care about how many times somebody recognizes my face.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.