Frank Oz Quotes

Luckily, I don't think that I'm too famous. I can still live my life pretty comfortably. Fame has never really ever appealed to me. I think it's easy to see that it's not a great thing to have.

I don't like to be famous.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.

It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it.

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.

There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.

I don't know if I'd wanna be in the limelight.

I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.

I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.

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 hate fame.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.

In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

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

I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.