Daniel Handler Quotes

I wouldn't like my fans going through my rubbish.

When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

When we're not filming or promoting then, you know, I live two different lives. So when I'm just in Taylor's life, and I'm just, you know, at home spending time with friends, it's great, it's a totally different life than this 'Twilight' world for sure. But it's amazing; our fans are the most passionate fans in the world!

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.

I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.

Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.

Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.

Some people bare their entire life on the Internet. There are politicians and actors, who like that. But there are some who don't want to do that.

There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to you and they would say, "Excuse me," and you'd barely hear them, and you'd turn around and you'd say, "Yeah, how you doing?" and they'd say, "I'm really sorry to bother you, but my aunt is a big fan of yours, and would you mind terribly if you'd just sign this paper," or whatever it is, and you're happy to do that, and the people are pretty nice about it.

I'm a fan of movies and television shows, and I don't expect anything from actors and actresses, or anyone, but good work. What they do. I don't feel like I deserve a piece of their personal life, or even what they think about the work they do.

I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated.

I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.

You can have rules at home that are different from the rest of the world's as long as you're not hurting anyone.

Some people come up and ask for an autograph and don't even look at me. They're like, 'Here, do it.' That don't bother me, but it doesn't open my heart.

The strangest thing [to sign] has to be parts of [fan's] anatomy. But mostly female.

It’s a little weird to have fans see pictures of us when we were little because it’s like, ‘Where’d you get that picture?’

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

The dogs, and home, privacy is my constant.

I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.

These days, more than any other time, we are worried about our personal life, our private life. When we talk about our private life, it means our home, our body even. It seems that when we want to have calmness in this world, we make a wall around us. This gives us a very calm environment, and when we feel that somebody is intruding into that, it makes us very angry and we feel we have to do something about it.

I don't want to date someone who the whole world knows. Obviously, there are guys you look at and are like, 'Aww yeah, nice,' but I definitely have an anti-celebrity dating thing.

The people I meet on the street satisfy my need to make contact with the fans. I love to meet them and I never say no to pictures. If an actor sees that as a curse, I think they need to go and be a roofer for a while. Or try out being a garbage man and seeing how they like it.