David Alan Basche Quotes

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

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.'

I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.

I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.

I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide.

I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.

I'm a pretty private person, so I don't mind not being recognized.

I have the ability to move around without being recognized all the time. I mean, you want to be famous - but not too famous.

I'm quite lucky, really: I don't get recognised too much.

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I've never had a very great public life.

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.

I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.

I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it.

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.

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.

When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.

In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

People have recognized me sometimes but not much. I'm glad my life isn't too different. I don't want it to be.

For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.

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 prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.