Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater not a real person.

Well I knew I wanted to be an actor and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

In Los Angeles as I gained and lost celebrity then gained it again I often found myself wondering why I out of thousands like me had become famous.

The F-word is 'famous ' the C-word is 'celebrity' and S-word is 'star ' in my book. The other three words are fine - you can say those. But 'famous ' 'celebrity' and 'star ' I think are misused.

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

We need to teach our kids because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment that however rich you are however famous you are however glamorous you are everyone has to live by the same rules.

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 know I have this level of celebrity of fame international national whatever you want to call it but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'

I have a great job writing for 'The Office ' but really all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is like Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

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.