Martin McDonagh Quotes

The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call a truce with it on a good day.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

What I don't want is to be in the public's face all the time. I know there are people who will do anything and everything to be out there. That's not my agenda. I love doing what I do and doing it for a period of time and then stopping.

I'm not a guy who needs the spotlight. It's not something I have to have. I'm content to sit at home.

I never pushed the envelope of wanting people to know me, or be on the covers of magazines. I just want to enjoy what I'm doing.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

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

I'm 61 now, and I'm comfortable in my lifestyle... I don't yearn for the limelight on a regular basis. I get a kick out of it every so often. I go to Philly and go to a game, and they make a big deal about me. That's fun for a couple of days, and I can go back to my own private life.

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

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

I'd prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

I live a very low-key life.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

I feel lucky, where I'm not 'famous' famous. I'm not someone that everyone kind of knows for no reason. If people know who I am, they like me because if they didn't like me, they forgot about me.

I feel like I've got a nice little niche where I stay just below the radar, which is perfect. I just don't want to be known for anything other than music.

I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.

I mostly go under the radar, which is fantastic because I would not be a good famous person.

I mean, being a solo artist is very different than being a member of a band. It's absolutely different. The whole situation is very different - situations where you can't really compare, it's so very different. But I found happiness.

I don't think I'll ever get chased by paparazzi - which is a good thing.

You would never have seen me on any party scene, which is probably what made me able to disappear, in a way, because the tabloids had nothing to follow.

Ideally, I would like to not be in the public eye.

I am not crazy about doing Hollywood films.

I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.