Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.

It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

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

Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

How did I become a star? I don't know how it happened. When I look at my old pictures, I can't tell how it happened!

People look at me and keep walking - but you can tell they know who I am. I want them to bug me. It's gonna be a sad day when they don't.

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

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.

I can't step outside my house now - everybody knows my face.

I still don't know how I became famous. It all happened so fast.

People ask me for autographs now and I think to myself: 'Are you sure?'

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.

It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Once you're famous you can't go back.

You know, I've just about got used to the fact that people in Britain know who I am on some level, but the notion that there's any kind of international recognition is still slightly bizarre to me.

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.

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.