Carey Mulligan Quotes

I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.

I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.

I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.

We not from Hollywood, so I'm not playing Hollywood's game.

There are lots of people who are red-carpet types, but that's not me.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

I hate all the red carpet stuff. It's weird, because it's part of what's expected of you now.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

I never wanted to work with celebrities. I have no interest. I don't really care about their egos and their publicists.

Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

I hate red-carpet photographs!

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

You've got to swank in Hollywood.

I'm not really into the celebrity lifestyle.

When I first started playing, the only time you knew you would get photographed was if the paparazzi were outside a smart restaurant in town.

I hate the showbiz scene.

I don't live in the Hollywood bubble. I never have and I never will.

I'm kind of irritated by the Hollywood scene.

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.