Jason Schwartzman Quotes

It took me awhile to learn the public eye was on me.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.

I'm in the public eye.

You step away from the public eye for too long, they don't care no more.

I'm a normal girl from a normal background, I just happen to be in the public eye. My job is to be on TV and that's it.

I don't want to be in the public eye so much that you reach the point where everyone has an opinion about you.

Anyone that chooses to be an actor or politician is making a choice to lead their life in the public eye.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.

I find that people are constantly coming up to me now. There's been a definite surge of people recognizing me and I'm not sure if it has to do with the DVDs or not, but I've sort of assumed that it does because the show has been off the air for three years now.

Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.' So I'm at the level of fame where people kind of know who I am, but they confuse me with other people.

But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.

Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

All the people know Tomba, but not the real Alberto.

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 lost interest in being in the public eye.

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.

I think we as celebrities have a lot more control.

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

It's like if people don't see you on TV every day, they think you're in cryogenics somewhere.