Quotes About Fame

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

I don't go to the mall a lot 'cause girls scream and run at me, and I get shy.

I tend to be shy in asking people for photos - other actors that I really like and admire.

I wanted a pseudonym partly because I'm quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but if I should be lucky enough to make a hit, I wanted to be able to shrug off the mantel of Nick Harkaway when I got home.

If Cole and I are together, we're noticeable. Fan encounters come with the job, and you can't shy away from them.

As a child, people were always trying to photograph and film me because it's a way for a shy person to find themselves.

Ironically, becoming known publicly was my biggest fear. And it was partly because I'm on the whole a fairly shy person.

You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.

If you aren't hot in Hollywood, you feel like you're in Siberia.

I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, 'He does all these crazy things.' But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said, 'Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen - impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.'

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

I remember Michael Jackson once called to see if I was feeling okay because I had gone home sick from the set of 'Goonies'; they'd shut down production for a couple days. I was so excited he called, but he didn't leave his number.

You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

It's my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover.

I think everyone became sick of Sheryl Crow. I actually became sick of Sheryl Crow.

I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.

I think if I was in over 250 films, the world would get pretty sick of me. I would probably never get put in anything ever again.

I don't want to have people get completely sick of me before I've ever even done something legitimate.

I'm sick of seeing my face on television.

Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen.

I'm sure it's 10 times easier to handle the criticism and the paparazzi and all of that stuff with somebody by your side that you can share some of that with.

Celebrity farmer. Now there's a phrase that should be an oxymoron. There are farmers on both sides of my family, and I can attest that the overlap between the way farmers live, work and think, and celebrity culture, is exactly 0%.

I am happy to be the son of the greatest F1 racer of all time. I'm happy that he is the greatest F1 racer of all time, and I admire him for that. And even if sometimes it can be a bit difficult, it is what it is. There are good sides to it, and there are bad sides.