J. Tillman Quotes

I don't do 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.

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

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

I think that, in the beginning, you think, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' And then, with the more movies you make, you are like, 'I don't know if I want to be that anymore. I think what I am looking for is something different.' I like acting, but a lot of times, stardom comes with a lot of strings attached.

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

I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.

I don't mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movie. But besides that, I don't like those kinds of things at all. Celebrity status is not really something that appeals to me.

I'm a real-life 'Hannah Montana.'

I feel fame shouldn't necessarily get me going, but I understand it is part of the job. Sometimes, it is inconvenient and unnecessarily imposing in your personal life.

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.

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

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 don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

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.

My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.

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

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.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.

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.

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

God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.