Lana Del Rey Quotes

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

I don't know how people recognize me.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

I'm used to the public knowing me, knowing about me.

People think I'm a celebrity. I'm not a celebrity.

I'm a sex symbol. Is that wild? It blows me away. I mean, I've always known it, I just figured nobody else did.

I hate to consider myself a celebrity.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

It's always a shock to me when I get recognized.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you - and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.

Celebrity is very weird.

You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.'

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.

I get double-takes at the hardware store. I've had people say, 'I didn't know you did this.' With a celebrity, if folks don't see you, they think all you do is stay in the house.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

Did people's attitudes towards me change after I appeared on TV? Yeah, definitely. During my career I've had some flak - particularly doing television.