Natalie Portman Quotes

I don't know if I'd wanna be in the limelight.

I have always been reasonably anonymous, but I suppose that has gone with the success of 'Homeland.' I feel a lot more visible, which is good and bad. Good because I am getting recognition, but I am slightly apprehensive because I always enjoyed my anonymity.

I went from unknown to having no anonymity.

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

I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it.

I never pursued being 'famous.'

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

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

I am definitely not a household face, and I don't expect to be one.

I've noticed being back in football that, after some anonymity, people recognise you again. It's a pain in the neck.

I'm not the guy trying to be all up in the videos and be a celebrity. I feel like I'm going to lose a certain amount of my privacy if I do that.

I don't want to be famous.

As a model, only a limited number of people knew about me.

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 don't really want to be famous.

I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.

I never wanted to be famous and live my life in the glare of publicity.

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

No one recognises me on the street, ever.

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

I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.

I almost never get recognised in the street.

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 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.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.