Sally Rooney Quotes

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you - and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.

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 don’t care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

I never considered myself a celebrity. I hate that word. It's tawdry.

Hopefully, by the second or the third film, who my father is won't be a story anyone's interested in. They'll either like the films or they won't, and if they don't like them, I won't be making them any more.

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

I don't want to dedicate my life to getting publicity.

I don't know how people recognize me.

I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

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.

I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are.

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.

Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was.

I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.