Josh Brolin Quotes

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you!

I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.'

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.

I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.

A lot of people have said I'm the anti-Kim Kardashian and I'm all right with that.

I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker schedule, and it's the TV directors I've worked with that I looked to and became a big fan of.

I'm not in the business of trying to be a celebrity. I like entertaining and being in movies. I like when people leave a movie and talk about it with friends. My biggest struggle is the press... its an odd thing and something I've had to learn a lot about.

I just love working with actors in general.

I've got to dress more conservatively because now people write about what I wear.

I believe in wishing my colleagues and other celebs in a manner that brings my wit out and gives people a talking point. But there are people who love and those who hate you. That's part of a celeb's life.

I just like to be seen for the hard-working actress that I am and not for a bunch of extraneous press.

I've spent the better part of two decades running both toward and away from an image - the Hollywood image - that had come to define me.

I think celebrity is taking a heavy shot because of reality TV and the rise of Mr. Trump. I think people are becoming a little more leery, assuming that being a celebrated individual means you have some gravitas.