"I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous"
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The subtext is about control. “Comfortable” isn’t a moral word, it’s a bodily one. It suggests the daily friction of being watched, interpreted, photographed, narrated by strangers who feel entitled to your face. For an actor, that’s especially pointed: the job is to be seen, but not necessarily known. Lohman is separating performance from personhood, insisting that visibility on-screen doesn’t automatically translate into a life lived as a public resource.
Context matters, too. Lohman came up in the early 2000s, right as the tabloid-industrial complex and paparazzi economy got louder, crueler, more omnipresent. Her discomfort lands as a quiet critique of a machine that sells “relatability” while punishing privacy. In an era when celebrity is increasingly treated as a brand strategy and a social-media skill, her statement sounds almost radical: a reminder that fame isn’t just exposure, it’s a permanent loss of ordinary anonymity.
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| Topic | Fear |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lohman, Alison. (2026, January 16). I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-ill-ever-be-comfortable-with-the-111014/
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Lohman, Alison. "I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-ill-ever-be-comfortable-with-the-111014/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-ill-ever-be-comfortable-with-the-111014/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

