David Nicholls Quotes

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

I just kind of wanted to do something where you don't just see 'Kardashian' everywhere.

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

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

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.

This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well.

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?

I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

I haven't changed, but public life has. It used to be you'd go into a restaurant, and the owner would say, 'Do you mind if I take a picture of you and put it on my wall?' Sweet and simple. Now, everyone has a camera in their pocket.

I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.

You can't really fault people who are experiencing fame. They're just making their way through, and everybody around them is reflecting this fame right back at them. It's strange.

Because I came into fame so early on, I've never done that. I don't investigate through the Internet about people who I know in the same way that I think most people do because I know what that's like to be on the other end of it. I think it gave me a certain kind of discipline, or empathy.

I think I was lucky to be a little older when I became famous. But still, the shock of the world starting to treat you in a weird way... I had come from the army, where we had to deal with life or death, and suddenly, people were asking whether you were cool or not. I have never cared about whether I'm cool.

I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.