I hate fame.
I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it.
I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.
The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
OK, so I'm not famous for the right reasons.
I paid a price for being on game shows and that was not being taken seriously. But so what? I did what I did and I was glad. But it's a strange form of immortality.
In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.
I feel slightly embarrassed by being called 'the godfather.'
Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.
It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.
When they boo you, you know they mean you.
It's not really cool to be singled out.
I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying.
You want success, and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention.
I became the face of the franchise in Miami, and I don't think they wanted me to be that. The respect was just never there.
I still get very uncomfortable and flushed on the street if somebody recognizes me or stops me. I don't know what to say. It's uncomfortable and strange.
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was uncomfortable being the center of attention, but he was the centerfielder for the most famous franchise in sports.
I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.
Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure.' It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.
I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy. Fame and all that stuff have always been slightly terrifying to me, and it makes me very anxious.
