Donna Leon Quotes

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

I don't think it's anything you ever get used to... for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word 'famous' or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable... if you get used to it, then something must be wrong.

I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.

I don't really want to be a celebrity.

I've got no desire to be famous myself.

I don't like to be famous.

I don't really want to be famous.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I don't see myself as a famous person.

I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way.

I hate fame.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.

I'm famous. That's my job.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.