Romola Garai Quotes

I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

It's not that I don't want to be famous. It's just that I don't feel like the burden of responsibility on selling a film should be on the actors.

I am not a star. My face is not the kind that 50,000 people will faint just looking at it.

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.

There's no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor.

My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.

I think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor.

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.