Albert Brooks Quotes

I don't want to be a celebrity. I never, ever did.

When The Cranberries got really big in Ireland, it became difficult for me to be there with all the photographers and paparazzi.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

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.

Celebrity is very weird.

I think it's so flattering that people would even give me enough attention to know about my private life.

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

I don't like being a celebrity.

I don't think most people decide to become an actor because they want to be followed around all the time... I see it when I'm with my brothers, and I don't get it. I don't understand why someone wants to take a photo of us getting out of a car or on the beach. I think that's really weird.

I wouldn't like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.

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 get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around. I get to go to the shop and buy bread and milk, and no one worries me.

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.

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

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

It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.

The truth is, I suppose I am now public property; and a public inn is the place where people can have access to me.

I've had time to taste fame, but I definitely lean towards being the kind of actor where I'm happy to be able to walk down the street and go to the corner store and not get hassled.

Sure, every young person dreams about being famous, but nobody wants to be famous - unless they're Zsa Zsa Gabor - every single moment of every single day.