Chevy Chase Quotes

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

I don't like the media attention.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.

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?

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

I don't like being a celebrity.

Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

I knew that people disliked me, and there always will be, but that's the price you pay for being in the limelight, so to speak.

I had some issues. When I first had to deal with being in 'Star Wars,' you know, who wouldn't?

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way.

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely.

I look at Justin Bieber and my heart breaks for him, because I know what he's going to go through. He knows it. Everybody knows it.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.