Idris Elba Quotes

I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

I'm not a private person. I like hanging out and talking to fans. But my life isn't so interesting that you want to see the inside of it.

Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.

I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story... I'm not comfortable doing that.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience.

I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

I enjoy letting my fans into my world.

I use Twitter pretty much exclusively to interact with fans. There's no, 'I'm having breakfast wherever.' I don't think people care where I'm having breakfast.

Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would like to disappear into the crowd, my work won't let me - difficult as it is for my family.

Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.

I don't know how to interact with fans, man.

I try to be available for the fans, but sometimes when I'm with my family, wife, and friends, I try to protect my private life.

Even though my life has been played out in the media because I am a Biden, my father never once suggested that the family's public profile should be my priority.

We all have opinions to what our parents really are, whether they agree or not. I'm sure they would feel the same the other way around.

There is a tendency to want to isolate a little bit, from people that might look at me from a fan position, because it's hard to be a real person around them, and I really want that when I'm not out on tour and in that sort of public eye.