If you receive so much fan mail, it does touch you personally.
I don't get recognized all the time, but it tends to happen more in America, and people are so lovely when they do.
I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
I love my fans and they follow me everywhere - I recognise a lot of faces.
In Chile and in other places, people recognize me, and everything I've been able to pick up from this experience is people caring about me.
I never got why actors don't like it when a fan comes up to them on the street. It is cool that someone recognizes what you do and makes you feel like you live in a community.
I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
My fan mail is what keeps me going.
Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.
I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.'
I love receiving fan mail.
I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.
The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.
The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
I love being recognized. I love talking with - can I say 'fans'?
Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.
It's always nice to have people love the things that you do.
Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
It's an honor to have people follow you and watch you. I do get a lot of fan mail and I read everything. It's very flattering and sort of surreal. I'm very glad that people like what I do and they want to follow what's going on.
I'm happy when the fans sing my name.
What I treasure the most is people coming up to me in the elevator and saying, 'You really did a great job': neighbours who congratulate for a job well done or little fans who hug me and say they want to be like me.
It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
I can't stand on the roadside and have Pani Puri like before. But, at the same time, being an actor makes you feel special. People look up to you, want to know more about you, and shower you with so much love without even knowing you personally. It's overwhelming.
I like receiving attention for the things that I do, like a good film.