Romany Malco Quotes

When the success of 'Crazy Rich' hit, it's like everybody knows exactly who you are, and the way that they speak to you is different. I've stayed the same throughout. It's just people's perception of you changes.

Celebrity is very weird.

Popularity means people think they know you.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

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

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.

I never had that star aura.

I don't know how people recognize me.

I don't conduct myself like a rock 'n' roll star in my day-to-day living. Am I a celebrity? Yes. Do people recognize me on the street? Yes, they do. But at the same time, it's not a media center out here. People get used to you.

I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

When your name is out there like that, guys are going to want to see what you're about.

After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me.

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

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.

I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on 'Friends' or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you - and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.