John C. Reilly Quotes

I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.

I have always had a career, be it modeling, reality TV, or even my not-so-great films.

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

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.

There's a big difference to me between the people who are famous and just accept the fact that it comes with the territory of what they do, and the people who actively seek it out, who intentionally put themselves in the position of being on camera and being famous.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

I'm an actress, not a celebrity.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.

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

Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.

I'm not in the business of trying to be a celebrity. I like entertaining and being in movies. I like when people leave a movie and talk about it with friends. My biggest struggle is the press... its an odd thing and something I've had to learn a lot about.

The whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I'm part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.

I've been famous for years through my entertainment programs, through my show business activities and my business.

I don't admire actors so much, actually.

I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.

I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.