Ethan Canin Quotes

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

I'm famous. That's my job.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

Everyone thinks I'm on 'Mindhunter!'

My reputation precedes me now.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.

I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

Fame means so little about somebody when you come right down to it.

You can't get un-famous. You can get infamous, but you can't get un-famous.

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

Now it seems like a lot more people recognize me.