John Krasinski Quotes

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.

I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.

I didn't know I was a sex symbol in the U.K., but if I am, then I'm flattered.

I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

I'm neither sexy nor a star.

I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.

Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.

Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.

Maybe one day I'll have a big hit, and the world will make a big sex symbol out of me like they always do when there's a new chick.

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

I'm so not a celebrity.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

I'm not a big fan of trying to be a sex symbol or any of that stuff because I really like the music to speak for itself.

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.

I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.