Quotes About Identity

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

It's definitely important to stay true to yourself and stay close to those people who you were close to before [becoming famous]. Family, your friends, and just not let that outside stuff get to you.

I actually can't think of anything worse than being famous... Fame really distorts your perception of yourself.

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?

I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.

I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.

I never enjoyed being famous.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

I'm world-famous ... all over Canada.

It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous.

DeYtH Banger is a character, who is famous because of me, who is created by me and who lives by me...

Everyone in New York City thinks they are famous without being famous.

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

I can't imagine dating someone famous. I try to stay away from that as much as I can.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.