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Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

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.

Surrounded by high-paid publicity people and professional ego massagers, movie stars, like politicians, almost invariably come to believe that they are nicer, more charming, and more beloved than they appear to be to a casual observer, and that their stories about their careers are universally fascinating.

You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

Actors don't get to be well-known if they're horrible.

You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!

The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.