Herbert Beerbohm Tree Quotes

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.

What I've realized, and had to become comfortable with, is that I'm just, I don't think, a star. I'm an actor.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

It's totally weird to see myself on a billboard!

Till this day, people stop me in the supermarket, and they're like, 'Oh, we're so proud of you!'

I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great!

When people come up to me and ask for a photo, ask for an autograph, I'm like 'Me? Are you sure?' I don't consider myself to be a public figure. I just happen to be.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

I don't think a lot of people know personally who I am.

I don't go, 'I'm in the papers all the time,' because there are loads of people in the papers all the time. Sometimes I'm still like, 'Ooh, look- there's me!' I'm never like, 'Wow, look at me on the bus.' You have to be a bit grounded about things like that.

Man, I used to go around and think, 'Oh my God, what must it be like to be going down the street, and someone asks you, 'What's your name?' and the reply would be, 'John Coltrane.' I couldn't imagine what that would be like.

I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'

I'm not someone who enjoys being recognised too much.

When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously.

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.

I think I'm the most underrated superstar that's out there, but that doesn't matter to me.

In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the dim light, daring me to call her a name other than my own.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

It was one of the few places where someone remembered his name. Yeah, okay, so he felt like Sam Malone on Cheers, but there was no Norm or Cliff sitting at the bar here. More like Spike and Switchblade.’ (Wulf)

It's going to be really weird to know that people are going to actually know my name, that's going to be strange.

You do a couple of superhero things and then, all of a sudden, they want to get you because there may be some name value.

I'm really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.