Michael Mann Quotes

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.

I was asked to audition for the second season of 'Stranger Things.' I didn't want that level of exposure. I don't want to be TV famous.

When you're famous, you can't go to Topshop. Even when I disguise myself in a moustache, baseball cap, sunglasses - the full Madonna kit - it doesn't work: my stupid face is too big.

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

I'm a private person, but I don't feel afraid to walk out of my door or anything. I get recognised occasionally, but not overwhelmingly so.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.

In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

I never used to get photographed and people asking for autographs. I don't mind the autographs, but the paparazzi I find weird. As an actor, you want to be able to regard the world instead of having it regard you.