Robert Parish Quotes

People who love the applause should have it, but I don't care for it.

It never really bothered me that I never got the same publicity.

The publicity and hoopla was never important to me.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

There is no better feeling than having the approval and adulation of your fellow human beings.

The cameras used to pass by me; now they're stopping for me.

Fame is a very unnatural human condition.

With each award we get, we become a little bit more overrated. That's what it feels like.

I didn't want to be famous or any of that.

I don't mind not having recognition. If it happens, fine, but it doesn't bother me that it's not there.

I don't even think about fame at all.

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did.

I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I am not a star. At least, I don't consider myself a star.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

But I don't feel the need to be famous.

I quite like being mobbed. After all, it is extremely nice to be recognised. That's what acting is all about - being recognised.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.