Hans Matheson Quotes

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

I got into this business because I like acting and I want to make movies. I would be happy living the rest of my life never famous.

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.

I want to be so far removed from the idea that it's like, 'Oh, right, he won a Super Bowl.' Football is only a small part of your life.

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

If we had our priorities straight as a country, we'd consider leaving fame behind a mark of wisdom and character.

I'm just a normal girl. People have these preconceived notions about what movie stars are about and how we've grown up. My mother is pretty regular and raised us just like anyone else.

A film star is a film star, and you can't take that away. Hence, I don't think about money when I do films, but I will do it for TV like the way I do it for endorsements.

The older you get the more you realize that life is more than just basketball. Your vision of the world gets much wider, and you're not the centre of it no more. You understand that you're a moving part and that you have other responsibilities.

I'm someone that maybe people who don't know a lot about me actually know more of my songs than they think they do.

I have never felt that I am a star. It never came to my mind.

I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly.

I don't want to do too many films because I don't aspire to buy huge cars or build bungalows.

I completely understand how temporary fame is, and I keep my sanity at all times.

If fans want to talk to me in Tesco, I will. I am a normal person like anyone else. I just play football.

I guess I'm just proud that I kept on working, not becoming just a viral hit.

I don't see that we're any different than many, many people that are out there. And it's hard to kind of accept something like we're larger than life, super-people or something like that.

I hang out with the right people, my friends that I've had since the beginning. We go to the beach, take walks, paint, see our family - just normal things that people who become famous lose sight of.

With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

I think I've always been kept grounded. I've never been too involved with the movie business apart from just doing the film. I've never moved out to LA like a lot of people or been too drawn in by that.

Look, it's very easy to sit here right now with some films in the bank that I like and think I have a shot and feel pretty cocky. But, you know, three years from now, I could very easily be saying, 'Paper or plastic?'

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

From day one, I was already famous in my own head. It didn't take anything to make me feel that way. I know I'm totally not famous. I mean, it just depends on your perspective.