Mara Wilson Quotes

I still get very uncomfortable and flushed on the street if somebody recognizes me or stops me. I don't know what to say. It's uncomfortable and strange.

I don't like being called a celebrity. So much so that I find it very uncomfortable looking at myself on the screen.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

I don't go to the mall a lot 'cause girls scream and run at me, and I get shy.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to... you just want to... I dunno, um... thump them.

I actually find it really hard to deal with people looking up to me or being interested in wanting a picture.

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.

There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.

I am not comfortable at all with this tag of being dubbed 'the richest Indian' and all the attention that follows for the reason.

It's totally weird to see myself on a billboard!

Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.

I still get weirded out when people recognise me.

It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

It's really hard to watch yourself on TV. It's definitely different in that the world has to watch, too.

Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo.

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.

I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. I've been asked for autographs while I've been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!

I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looking at me and kind of whispering and pointing. Finally, I went, 'Is everything okay? Did I do something wrong? Do I have a booger on my face and no one's telling me?' I'm just not used to it.

There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.

I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.