Rosie Perez Quotes

It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your picture on a bus.' It's tricky: You're excited by the possibilities, but you don't want to get too crazy.

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me.

I don't really want to be famous.

Every place I go, Im recognied, and its pretty hard to just sit by yourself.

I always laugh at people who strive to be famous because all you do is get mithered to death by everyone.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.

I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

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

Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

I don't really care about having more fame than I have.

I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention.

I hate fame.

I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.

Well, it's embarrassing to be a star.

I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.

Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.

I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.