You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.
There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.
I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.
I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.
What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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 a professional actor, not a celebrity.
The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.