Chris Hemsworth Quotes

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't want to take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

I think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to really carry some of these stories, there's this relationship that has to be cultivated with an audience. People have to be able to say your name.

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.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

People know who you are when you've never met them. For them, through interviews and seeing you perform, they feel like they know you and you've never seen them before. It's really different, but it's awesome.

I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

I don't think I could do a reality show, no.

You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.

For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

People will consider me a part of their lives for however long 'Downton Abbey' lasts. It's a lovely thing to feel as an actor.