Jessica Lucas Quotes

I think in some ways I'm quite lucky to be living in London, there's this certain separation from the movie business. In that way, it's been quite easy to separate acting and going back to a normal life.

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

People say to me 'You're a big Hollywood star', and I find it so funny. I still feel as though I'm the girl from Golders Green. I lead such a boring, normal life. I still go shopping in Sainsbury's. If the ability to do that was taken away from me, I'd go barmy. You lose your freedom. Be careful what you wish for.

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.

I don't think anyone would care about my private life because I don't do anything. I'm at home with my dog.

L.A. is an intense industry town, and there's a side of it that's superficial, but I surround myself with the kind of people who don't let me get sucked into that.

If you're strutting around Beverly Hills and hitting up these big industry parties every night when you're not making movies, then it's going to eventually consume you. But for me, I live most of my life in Boston. I do things no different from the way my buddies back home do them, except when I go to work, I go to a film set.

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who's living them? You don't play characters that are celebrities - you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank's blocked.

When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.

Oh, I wouldn't want to go on a date with a female celebrity. I'd rather go on a date with a real woman.

I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.

When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.

I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I want to go out and grab a smoothie with a friend who's a male, I'm not gonna let the paparazzi stop me from doing that and living my life and just being a normal person.

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

There's been a lot written and said about my family. A lot of specials, a lot of movies. I essentially don't watch any of them. I don't read any of them. I keep that away.