I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.
I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.
After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.
Fame is something that is tough when it comes. It's a weird thing to take on in real life. I was a little bit afraid and, as a result, kind of turned my back on it. You should embrace it because it's going to be a part of who you are, and it's going to be a part of what this business is about.
I'm having a tough time coping in showbiz. I'm absolutely terrified of it. Each time you walk out, somebody wants to click a picture.
Ironically, becoming known publicly was my biggest fear. And it was partly because I'm on the whole a fairly shy person.
You want success, and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention.
Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.
I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.
On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.
I didn't expect to be afraid of RuPaul. But I was.
To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,--they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.
I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy. Fame and all that stuff have always been slightly terrifying to me, and it makes me very anxious.
Even after I became involved in theater and involved in TV and film, I had this sort of idea that Hollywood was off limits. There was something about L.A., the mystique of it and fear of it.
All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.
