Margot Robbie Quotes

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it's essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you're going to be an actor.

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.

For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don't mind being in the public, but it's just not really my personality, and it's not really why I'm into this. I like making art, and that's it. I don't really want to be a celebrity, seriously. I like my privacy.

Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.

I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.

The celebrity mill is so active these days that actors can make careers out of being themselves, and I don't know that I want to. I think I'm just figuring out how to make a career out of not being myself. It's hard.

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.