Matthew McConaughey Quotes

It's nice to be recognized, but at the same time, there are always consequences. You may get fame, but you lose anonymity. You lose a certain sense of who you are.

Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

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 enjoyed every moment, but we'd been everywhere, done everything. I wanted to get back to being just Dave Clark, not Dave Clark Celebrity.

For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don't mind being in the public, but it's just not really my personality, and it's not really why I'm into this. I like making art, and that's it. I don't really want to be a celebrity, seriously. I like my privacy.

As long as I've been doing Ghost, at least, I've been very keen on maintaining not necessarily an anonymity but a low profile. But on the other hand, I spent 25 years not doing Ghost, where, 20 of those years, I wanted to be nothing but a famous rock musician.

I was a very private person. I never had an open social media account. So, for me to walk down the street and have people say, 'Hey, Tan!' I turn around thinking, 'Do I know you?'

I'm not a celebrity, I'm a person, and when fans call me Diego, it's easier to remember that I'm no better than anyone else.

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

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

I revel in my anonymity. But when I'm at a specific event and gamers are there, they'll recognise me.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them.

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.