Damon Lindelof Quotes

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.

Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.

I didn't even think about it when I read the script and then shooting their movie and someone was like "boy, press is going to be fun". And I didn't really know what they were talking about because to me it's just a film shows it as an extremely viable option which is obviously the most important thing for young individuals.

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

Celebrity is very weird.

I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines.

Everyone in the film industry does a lot of drama to get the limelight.

Hollywood is silly sometimes.

Bollywood is just like any other industry. It is just that people in this industry are constantly in the public eye.

I don't do movie junket-y things, because I don't really do movies that much.

Show business people aren't vapid.

Hollywood is very divisive.

There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.

I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you." It's hard for me not to have a bad thought when someone says that to me, since if there's anything this business is not, is glamorous. It's only glamorous for maybe five minutes every now and then.

When you think about it there's never really been a realistic exposition of Hollywood, I mean - from the inside - showing Hollywood what it can do, what it has done, to people.

I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.

Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.

At the beginning of the Larry Sanders show, you know, we were grateful to get guests. At the end, it was as if we actually were The Tonight Show. People would come on, and it had the same sort of imprimatur as if we were on the air. I've been on a lot of talk shows during that time and since then, and people would come up in the dressing room or in the corridors and say, "You guys got it exactly right." Or they would say, "We have Larry Sanders moments every day."

I laughed at the whole Cannes Film Festival thing because it didn't feel real. I remember getting off the red-eye when I arrived in France. I had a cowboy had on and some zit medicine, and there were like 15 photographers who jumped over the luggage carousel to take pictures of me.

There's only five real people in Hollywood. Everyone else is Mel Blanc.

Formula 1 would be a paradise without the media.

I'm lucky right now because I'm not that famous, people will look at the work just as the work, and people respond to it pretty well. It's just hard to know exactly what group I need to meet and where I need to be. I think fame helps, but I want it to be separate as much as it can. Fame is just so weird, people just love famous people.