Callum Blue Quotes

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

I sometimes think, 'What am I doing standing on this red carpet?' It's hard to believe. You just tell yourself, 'Just play along and hopefully no one will notice!'

I could have done a lot of things on TV, but I don't want to be recognised in the street. I'm not ready to feel that sort of embarrassment.

People love to see public figures get taken down a notch, and by the same token, everyone loves to be the center of attention, even when there's a target on their forehead.

I get really nervous when people are like, 'I saw you in a trailer! I saw you on TV!' Genuinely, my cheeks get red.

I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

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.

I don't enjoy being recognised. It's unpleasant.

People laugh in my face sometimes if they don't know who I am. When they find out that I model they're like, 'well what do you model?'

I get embarrassed on the red carpet at awards ceremonies. The whole celebrity thing is embarrassing.

I was always introduced as the Beatles photographer and I gave it up in the end. I was so unsure of myself. Am I good or am I just the Beatles photographer? People were not interested in what I did before. I could not stand it any more.

I'm not convinced I have fans.

I hate being recognized; I hate it, hate it.

There was definitely a time where I really didn't want to be in the public eye, or have people know who I was and then they knew what my last name was, and you know, I've battled with that a little bit.

In New York, no one really cares who the hell you are. It's strange to be in the public eye where people have a perception of who you are, when they have never even met you.

I've been for 10 years trying to make something out of my life as an actor. I've learned a lot but I haven't done much that's worthwhile. So maybe if I make people wonder what I really do look like and make myself unrecognizable, they will be interested and intrigued, which eventually, of course, happened.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. That doesn't mean it's not really awkward.

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

It's so ironic - when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.