Shannyn Sossamon Quotes

After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

I was uncomfortable with that kind of fame when you're in the tabloids every day.

I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.

Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.

Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was uncomfortable being the center of attention, but he was the centerfielder for the most famous franchise in sports.

I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying.

You want success, and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention.

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

I mean I was famous for nothing.

It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.

I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it.

Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself.

Being famous is a bit dangerous sometimes.

For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'

We were under scrutiny when Stephen became rich and famous. The media were in the house, and camera leads were absolutely everywhere - it was just nightmarish.

I have always been in the news for something or the other and sometimes I am not even a part of the event and yet my name is dragged.

I know if I do something wrong, it's going to be all over the news.

We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?

Now I kind of have to watch where I go. I can't just wear whatever when I go out because somebody might want to take a picture. People are, like, taking pictures of me in my car when I'm driving. It's crazy. I kind of hate it sometimes.

I don't like being called a celebrity. So much so that I find it very uncomfortable looking at myself on the screen.

The hard part of being a celebrity is staying one!

More than anything else, being famous just didn't agree with me.

The bigger you get as a player, the bigger the spotlight.

There's no good way to be the center of a media maelstrom you did not choose for yourself.