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CHRIS EVANS at the UK Premiere of Captain America: Civil War, 2016.

Fame is not my favorite thing. I’m not going to say it’s always bad. It has good aspects to it. But I’m certainly not an actor who’s equating world notoriety with success.

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Chris Evans as Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger, 2011

I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

Chris Evans at Comic Con in Salt Lake City, 2015

Any role that you play, if you are in a head space for an extended period of time, you really have to think a certain type of way and get inside the head of a character and sometimes I play dark characters or frustrated characters and it’s negative because you are trying to tap into the parts of you that can connect to that, the parts of you from your own personal history and experience that you can identify and relate to, you have to find pieces of you that are in common.

In the industry you can certainly see how they always say fame makes you more of what you already were. So if you already had certain flavors inside you, fame is just going to bring that out of you. I’d like to believe before I ever started acting I had a pretty good head on my shoulders. You certainly, as a result of being in this industry, see people change for the negative. I won’t say I haven’t had little hiccups and pockets where you leave a scenario and you say, ‘Whoa, that wasn’t me.’ It’s up to you to recalibrate and adjust and make sure it doesn’t continue down that road.