Peyton List Quotes

Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a way to be comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation imaginable.

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to walk out of a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?

The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

Red carpets are awful. They're like a kind of purgatory - you stand there, and there are cameras flashing everywhere. One of my first red carpets was in Cannes for 'The Great Gatsby,' and I'd never seen anything like it.

You never want to be caught off guard on the red carpet.

I am fine if I am on a red carpet - I know what to do. You stop and smile and pose for a picture and that's fine.

I like to stay away from that red carpet world unless I absolutely have to do it. I'd rather put on my Tom Ford suit and take a few pictures at home.

I laughed at the whole Cannes Film Festival thing because it didn't feel real. I remember getting off the red-eye when I arrived in France. I had a cowboy had on and some zit medicine, and there were like 15 photographers who jumped over the luggage carousel to take pictures of me.

I've been involved in all the different awards shows. Apparently, what I wear becomes important.

I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.

Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.

I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.

On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.

You're surfing with all this glamour, and a lot of people are talking about Gwyneth, JLo, and Cameron.

Red carpet is a little bit scary. It's not about expression. It's about taking a pretty picture in a really weird, awkward way, with so many people watching. It's a glamorous part of the job, but it requires its own kind of courage.

I never look at any pictures of myself on the red carpet. I can't do that.

I was 15 on American Idol, and everybody had something to say. It was like I had my really awkward phase on national television, you know?

I've always struggled with Hollywood feeling trivial. Red carpets aren't worth it.

I walk into a restaurant, and people stare as though I've just landed from another planet. Every time I walk out in public, it's like the alien freak show has arrived. It does have its advantages. I hardly ever get bothered by the paparazzi, probably because of some of the more edgy characters I've played in movies.

There I was at 'The Tree of Life' premiere, holding hands with Sean Penn and Brad Pitt. That walk down the red carpet was a real rite of passage for me. Suddenly, journalists began asking, 'Who's this actress?'

The first time I went to the Emmys was amazing. I had someone make me a dress - like, made for me.

The only thing fame has changed about me is that I'm more self-aware when I go out in public.

I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines.

At the premiere for 'Leave It to Beaver,' I was walking down the red carpet, and they were screaming my name, and I'm wondering, 'What do I do?' So I had to think, 'OK, calm down, one person at a time.' Everything is kind of rattling, but afterwards, my publicist said I did really good.