John Hawkes Quotes

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

I don't like being a celebrity.

I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.

Celebrity's a pain in the backside - you're always on display.

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

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

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

I'm supposed to be famous, but I don't think I like it so much.

There's a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is the unfortunate flipside to it.

When everybody recognises you, going out is difficult. But you deal with it.

More than anything else, being famous just didn't agree with me.

People watch me... whatever I do, wherever I go.

My life has been on TV for so long now, I'm used to it.

I'm in the public eye. I'm a celebrity and a football player.

I don't want to be in the public eye so much that you reach the point where everyone has an opinion about you.

You step away from the public eye for too long, they don't care no more.

I don't want to be that famous.

Everything I do lands in the newspapers.

'In the Making' reveals the truth about 'being in the limelight' as a young celebrity.

Being in the public eye puts you in a fix, and people are always wanting to know what you are up to.