Teemu Pukki Quotes

I never fail to find it weird when people recognise me.

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

I could be ordering ham at the deli, and someone will turn around and look at me and kind of stare. They'll just look at me like, 'I know I know your voice, and I know I know your face.'

I'll be walking down the street with a mate, and someone will stop and say 'All right Crouchy, how's things?' and so on. Once they're gone, the person I'm with will say 'Do you know them?' and I'll say 'I've never met them before in my life'. Happens all the time.

I'm a low-key guy. So I like going to places and not being known. So it's weird when people are saying, 'Oh, it's you.'

Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

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.

Because I look like Everyman on some level, I would say I get recognized once or twice a day.

People know they have seen me somewhere, but they don't know where. They think I'm their next-door neighbor.

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, 'Why is that person staring at me?'

One of the reasons why I don't leave Northampton is that the people don't treat me like a celebrity. I've been here for years; I'm just that bloke with long hair.

I'm happy to be the guy on the subway that people stare at and they just can't quite place it. I don't really like my life intruded upon too much. In a way, it's kind of nice to not be all that well known.

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.

I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.

I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in.

I'm a private person, but I don't feel afraid to walk out of my door or anything. I get recognised occasionally, but not overwhelmingly so.

People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.

It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.

The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.