Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

I don't want people to treat me like a star or call me one.

I don't feel like a big star.

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

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 never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous.

Privately I think that I'm not really somebody who has a network television show. Celebrities are other people - Johnny Carson and Sylvester Stallone. I'm just a kid trying to make a living is the way I feel.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I don't see myself as a famous person.

But I don't feel the need to be famous.

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?

I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.

Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.

I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.

I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.

I'm as famous as I want to be.

I actually don't feel famous.

If somebody tells me I'm famous I say, 'I'm not.' I can't see myself as famous and I don't think I'll ever call myself famous. I definitely don't feel famous.

My reaction when I hear the word 'celebrity' is, 'Who, me?' It doesn't feel like I'm famous.