Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

You know how many times I have to witness the transition from, 'Oh, get away from that thug,' to, 'Oh, wait a minute, that's the guy from 'Weeds'! Hey, can I shake your hand?'

When the success of 'Crazy Rich' hit, it's like everybody knows exactly who you are, and the way that they speak to you is different. I've stayed the same throughout. It's just people's perception of you changes.

When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

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

I'm not a big, huge star, and so when people see me, it's usually to talk about something I've done, and that's a great conversation to have. That's what we're doing it for.

I don't think a lot of people know personally who I am.

The way people look at me these days - that's the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who've attained a certain position are human.

When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

After I did 'Private Benjamin,' suddenly the reputation was that Goldie Hawn calls her own shots.

When you're in the living room every week for nine years as one character, it's hard for some people to see you as someone else.

To tell the truth, I don't feel the pressure of fame. I don't have the problem of being a celebrity in terms of recognizability.

In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.

It is often pointed out to me that, in a brief time, I have gone from unknown film editor to star of 'Gomer Pyle,' guest star in two TV specials, and a night club headliner, and that this must necessarily have wrought some deep changes in me.

Winning 'I'm A Celeb' has massively affected my love life because it's very rare to meet someone that doesn't recognise me now because the jungle is so big.

No, fame has not changed Wizkid.

People view you differently when you're a world champion.

Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.

As you become famous you lose some of your anonymity, which is wonderful for an actor to have because you can observe people and also people don't have such a strong sense of who you are and that sort of thing.

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. Then if something happens to remind me that I'm an actress then I become a little different and things become a little heavy.

I'm not an actress, I'm a personality.

I've never not been famous.