Ellen Pompeo Quotes

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

I think most actors like to be liked.

I love attention.

I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

I don't want to be the guy who goes, 'Oh yeah, blah blah blah... everyone freaking well knows me.' Because that's not the case. Once in a while, someone will remember some silly thing I did and then they feel good. And they go, 'Oh, hey, Michael Bolton, I celebrate your whole catalog.' And I'm like, 'Great, great, I totally get it.'

I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

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

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

I was really uncomfortable with fame. I mean, it's lovely and flattering, and you enjoy all the razzmatazz and being flown around, but when people suddenly call you a star, you think, 'I'm not a star, I'm just playing a star role.'

Everybody wants to watch me.

I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.

I enjoy being recognized. I'll be very sad if people stop recognizing me. I'll be very sad if I'm not interviewed, because that's a very amazing process.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.

There's no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor.

I quite like being mobbed. After all, it is extremely nice to be recognised. That's what acting is all about - being recognised.

I love hearing my song on the radio the first time, but when it comes on again, I change the station. I already have so much of the spotlight on me. I don't need any more.

If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

I think the world needs to see more of my face.