Jamey Sheridan Quotes

I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

Like, if you are a celebrity, then anyone will let you be in a film or on a TV show, and if you're an actor, chances are if you are successful, you are becoming a celebrity.

It's nice to be known for a pretty great movie.

Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

If you're on the cover of any magazine, you certainly get recognized more.

Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal.

I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

I don't want to just fall back on the fact that I was on the cover of 'GQ' for being an actor.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

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

It's not like I'm that wildly famous that it's disrupted my lifestyle in some way.

I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don't see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

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.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

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.

I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in.

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

I can't go anywhere without being recognized.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.