Farrah Fawcett Quotes

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.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

I don't like to be always in the press, or on television or always be on seen. It is not how I like to lead my life.

After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

I enjoy having my privacy and not seeing my face on the cover of everything, y'know?

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

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

I don't do celebrity.

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

I'm more of a homebody type. I don't want to look like I want to be in the public eye. I didn't become an actress to be famous.

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.

My children are unaffected by me being an actress because that's the way I like to keep it. I love the fact that they are so innocent about my star status. Sometimes, they come running to me and say, 'Mom, you are on TV.'

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.

I think that, in the beginning, you think, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' And then, with the more movies you make, you are like, 'I don't know if I want to be that anymore. I think what I am looking for is something different.' I like acting, but a lot of times, stardom comes with a lot of strings attached.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

I don't really want to be a celebrity.

You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.