I'm on television far too much. I'm not sure why. I've watched myself on TV from time to time. It's painful.
After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.
Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.
Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
I was uncomfortable with that kind of fame when you're in the tabloids every day.
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
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.
With the rise of social media, it has given me an opportunity and a platform to have a voice as a blogger and as an activist, but it has also made me nervous that I might become a meme or a viral sensation, all without my consent.
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.
Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.
There's no good way to be the center of a media maelstrom you did not choose for yourself.
You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me.
