Taye Diggs Quotes

When I was 30, I was very popular. Kids would scream, and women would scream.

It's different hearing girls I don't even know scream my name.

If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

I'm not good at being lionized, and when I'm in 'Grateful Dead'-type situations, that happens.

People recognise me now. I've got so much fan mail.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.

I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

The fans make the person a star.

It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.

I think people keep baseballs in their cars, just to be prepared in case they see me. It's cool to get recognized in public; it's an incredible feeling.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think.

In this business, if you're a success, there's some folks who actually worship you. I have been to some places where it's impossible to walk across the stage without having the major portion of my outfit torn off for souvenirs.

It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase.

I got recognized at the market the other day, but, no, nothing that spectacular. There's nobody fainting in the street as I walk past.

I've seen my name on marquees and bowed to standing ovations. I've also been called a fraud, a mental case, a heretic. People all over the country wait in line to hug me or curse me.

Any actor who says he does not like so many people shouting his name would be lying.

For an actor, it is great to have fans.

Huge crowds, numbering in lakhs, come to see me wherever I go.

Even I get fan mail.