Danica McKellar Quotes

I'm not interested in being in 'Heat Magazine.'

For those of you familiar with me, you know I'm the last person to chase publicity or attention.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

I've grown up in the press my entire life.

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

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

There's a big difference to me between the people who are famous and just accept the fact that it comes with the territory of what they do, and the people who actively seek it out, who intentionally put themselves in the position of being on camera and being famous.

I was uncomfortable with that kind of fame when you're in the tabloids every day.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

The idea that people are watching me now is a bit unnerving, but I suppose it comes with the territory. It is, perhaps, the modern side of celebrity.

All the Kardashians care about is the media, money, and being on camera.

You can seek out a lot of publicity if you want, depending on your choices. A lot of major celebrities don't have paparazzi following them.

I could have been bigger, but I wasn't controversial enough. I didn't do drugs or wreck rooms. There were no dramas in my private life.

To me, any publicity is good publicity.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

I just have friends that don't sell their pictures to newspapers.

I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors.

I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

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

I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?'

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.