Ksenia Sobchak Quotes

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

I didn't really care about the entertainment industry. That wasn't my life.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.

None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

I work in the entertainment industry, and I like to be entertained.

I know that everyone wants to know about 'Downton Abbey,' but the truth is that it was only a few days out of my life. Still, you play a distinctive part on a hit series, and everyone suddenly knows who you are. Isn't it crazy how this business works?

When I was younger, I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry.

I'm not in Hollywood because I'm good at math.

If you want to be really famous you have to go on TV every day.

Although early on, I did not think of showbiz, I dreamed of being on TV and becoming a celebrity.

I have always had a career, be it modeling, reality TV, or even my not-so-great films.

I didn't always know that I want to be an actor, but I always knew I wanted to be famous in anything that I do.

Whether it happens over 10 years, like with a lot of people, or with one hit movie that thrusts you into that world, when you become successful as an actor, you become well known. In the end game, that's just part of the business.

The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't really need to be known anymore than I am. The slight sliver of fame I do have is hard to deal with. If I was actually well-known - I don't even know what to say to people who are at my show when I walk into the venue, much less having waitresses in diners asking for my autograph.

It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.

I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.

I hate show business.

I knew I had arrived when taxi drivers would say, 'You're that twit on the Billy Cotton Show, aren't you?'

No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.