Helen McCrory Quotes

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

I hate all the red carpet stuff. It's weird, because it's part of what's expected of you now.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

You can't really fault people who are experiencing fame. They're just making their way through, and everybody around them is reflecting this fame right back at them. It's strange.

Bollywood is just like any other industry. It is just that people in this industry are constantly in the public eye.

It isn't always simple when America discovers you at 11 years old. Suddenly, it's not just homework that you're responsible for. Your name becomes a hashtag, and if you're lucky, you might even get invited on 'Ellen.'

I know chances are if I don't give an interview or make a public appearance or statement from time to time, they'll invent one. Every so often, I suppose people ask, 'Whatever happened to that other Beatle, George Harrison?' And someone comes around with a ready answer, no matter how preposterous it seems. It's possibly the worst price one has to pay for what they call stardom.

I always laugh because I used to think the week before anyone saw me on "Charlie's Angels," nobody cared what I ate, how I exercised, what clothes I wore. Nobody was interested and the minute I was on "Charlie's Angels" everything I said was interesting.

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 you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

I don't think most people decide to become an actor because they want to be followed around all the time... I see it when I'm with my brothers, and I don't get it. I don't understand why someone wants to take a photo of us getting out of a car or on the beach. I think that's really weird.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

I just kind of wanted to do something where you don't just see 'Kardashian' everywhere.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

You see Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson, what they go through, and dude, that's not as exciting as it looks.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.