Terry Pratchett Quotes

I like the way that different people recognise me for the roles I done.

I used to hate being recognised.

I lead a unique existence as someone who is famous for being young on film, or young in the minds of everyone.

It's difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognise you from your work or just because you're 6 ft. 3 in. and have the eyebrows of Satan. It's difficult to distinguish between the two.

I was stuck with the dark glasses. They took all these pictures that went around the world. I guess once you become successful, you don't want to change anything too drastically.

Everyone thinks I'm on 'Mindhunter!'

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That's part of being a public figure.

The trouble started when I won the world amateur title in 1980, aged 18. People began talking about me as the next star of the game. But I also started to get recognised more and I wasn't prepared for it.

I have to maintain my stardom.

Give yourself a healthy bit of distance between your fame and reality because they are two different things.

People get it twisted. They see the baseball stuff, and they don't see you as a human being. They see you as someone that just plays baseball.

Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I'm used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.

I'm fascinated by people who can keep who they are in the midst of this business, which is all about not only pretending to be other people, but also that perception of who you are and how successful you are and your standing in the business.

You just feel like you're doing a job that you want to be doing, and then one day, somebody asks you a question like that: 'What's it like to be famous?' It doesn't really mean anything. The only difference is some people stop you and ask you for photographs.

In the beginning of my career, everybody knew it, it was no secret that I loved the spotlight. I basked in it. And then all of a sudden, I turned into this person who was reclusive, or hiding.

I was really uncomfortable with fame. I mean, it's lovely and flattering, and you enjoy all the razzmatazz and being flown around, but when people suddenly call you a star, you think, 'I'm not a star, I'm just playing a star role.'

Fame is weird.

It's nice to be recognized in the street.

When I go home, it is quite difficult. Being at Manchester United means it is a huge thing, and when I walk down the street, most people recognize me.

People make too big a deal about me.

When people say I've become a star, it takes time to sink in.

Fame is a problem of perspective.

People do recognize me sometimes. I occasionally get stopped and they have lovely things to say which is very overwhelming.

I did get recognised a few times in Letterkenny which is still very strange to me.

The sound of my voice is more famous than me.