Lauren Graham Quotes

I'm used to the public knowing me, knowing about me.

I was never really aware of being famous. Being in a magazine or on a billboard - that really didn't register to me at all when I was younger. People would come up to me and recognize me, but I was very fortunate in that people were always so warm.

This celebrity thing has been interesting. It's hard to get used to, because I don't see myself as a celebrity.

"Smooth Sailing" and "Hall of Fame" are my top two nicknames. "Cool Guy." "Jolly Jon." "Fun Jon." There's a lot of derivatives of Jon. "Cool Jon." Some people took "Smooth Sailing" and "Fun Jon" and made "Smooth Jon." That's a good one. It's just starting to catch on with the general public. Just every now and then, "Hey! Smooth Jon!" Or "You're Smooth Jon, right?!" People aren't quite sure. I'm like, "Yeah." "Okay, cool, that's what I thought!"

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

There's nothing to be said for being famous. It's a pain. You can't be rude to people - it's inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it's not in my nature. I was trained to be nice.

I don’t understand why Jackie O[nassis] thinks she’s so grand that she doesn’t owe it to the public to have another great marriage to somebody big. You’d think she’d want to scheme and connive to get into history again.

I just want to be known for the work I do, not my personal life or what I'm wearing.

I always have to make it as clear as I possibly can that fame is 99.9 percent good.

I've always wanted to do what I'm doing for the news, but I hate the idea of being some sort of celebrity.

By now, people should know who I am. I have established myself as Rich the Kid, so people respect me.

I sign a lot of autographs and take a lot of pictures. That's why I've always got to keep my hair done now.

People know more about my views than they do about most BBC presenters because I had a life before becoming a BBC presenter.

New Yorkers are tired of hearing about my personal life.

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.

I don't think there's a day that goes by where I go to the supermarket that a woman doesn't come up and want to give me a hug. It's a crazy thing when you're in the freezer department and some woman comes up behind you and says, 'Can I just hug you, please?' When it first happened, it really blew my mind.

I'll be walking down the street with a mate, and someone will stop and say 'All right Crouchy, how's things?' and so on. Once they're gone, the person I'm with will say 'Do you know them?' and I'll say 'I've never met them before in my life'. Happens all the time.

A lot of people recognize me from the MyPillow ads, and they often stop and ask for pictures. It's a blessing.

I did not expect to become a celebrity or be known by the public at all.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I never, ever did.

It feels really strange when I walk by newsstands and I don't see any magazines with me in it!

I don't really consider myself a celebrity.

As you get a lot of exposure, a lot of people looking at you, you have to take it more so how you carry yourself, how people view you. You have to worry about your image.