Celebrity is not something I consciously pursue.
I'm a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.
I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex.
I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different people do different things.
If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.
I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call 'real' work.' I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer's assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit.
I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.
There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.
Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.
