Nick Nurse Quotes

Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

It's really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that it's not going to be in a positive way.

It's so disappointing that I've become a tabloid story.

For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'

I don't know how I became controversy's favourite child.

What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.

Fame gives you everything you never wanted.

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.

I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.

Vice President Quayle has been the object of too much attention that does not flatter him.

I get uncomfortable and kind of scared sometimes of certain public situations because, since I've been on TV or I've appeared in some films, people think this boundary between us has been removed, and I owe them something.

Because we put ourselves in a movie or on TV, then it must mean we want to be completely open to the world. Sometimes, people will run up to you as if this is Disneyland and I'm a character. I understand their point of view, but it's difficult to explain how terrified it makes me. I'm so nervous.

I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers.

It's awful walking into a restaurant and having the whole room look at you, knowing what they're saying.

Everywhere I go, people ask me about Jennifer Aniston's wedding. Everywhere I go. I always say to her, I'm like, 'Being friends with you is a burden. You think it's hard to be friends with me?'

If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.

I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it.

Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's mom. Can I take a picture with you?' But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like.

Sometimes people start with you. Especially in local places - 'Hey, go get your shine box.' So I go out earlier. I wear sunglasses and a cap... That's the downside of being successful.

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.

I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.

I have a very intrusive life, I guess you could say. I think that a lot of people know too much about me, truthfully.