Penn Badgley Quotes

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'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

I'm an actress, not 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 feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

I didn't go into acting because I wanted to be a role model.

I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

I don't really consider myself a celebrity.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

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

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

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

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

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'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.