Matthew Macfadyen Quotes

I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.

Everybody seems to know me. It's very strange.

Once in a while it can be a bit disconcerting to be so recognisable.

Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.

Most of the time, I'm pleased that people don't recognize me. But I don't hate it when they do.

I don't like to be famous.

I enjoy the idea of being able to sort of flip-flop between being recognized and not being recognized.

Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

I used to hate being recognised.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I want to.

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

… a public personage.

I used to be seriously incognito - without wanting to be. The effect of the magazines, television, billboards - they've changed my whole life in terms of having to deal with being a, quote, star.

I have the ability to move around without being recognized all the time. I mean, you want to be famous - but not too famous.

I went from unknown to having no anonymity.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to walking into the local shop or a local restaurant and having three or four people recognize me.

When I go home, it is quite difficult. Being at Manchester United means it is a huge thing, and when I walk down the street, most people recognize me.

I don't think I'm that recognizable.

You know, sometimes people recognize me, sometimes they don't.

I almost never get recognised in the street.

I don't know how people recognize me.

I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.