Quotes About Fame

Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence are such legends.

Sometimes, people know me from Marvel's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' But that usually only happens in America.

If I was in some Marvel movie and made all that Marvel money, you wouldn't see me ever again.

You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

What keeps an artiste going is the adulation of the masses.

I'll be walking down the street with a mate, and someone will stop and say 'All right Crouchy, how's things?' and so on. Once they're gone, the person I'm with will say 'Do you know them?' and I'll say 'I've never met them before in my life'. Happens all the time.

People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.

To be successful to me meant to have a hit record in England. I never looked outside England.

I wasn't meant to be famous. I've been blessed.

Michael was the first person to show me what it meant to be a star... but you cannot be that star and not accept all the things that came with it.

People in the U.K. absolutely love my character in 'Downton,' and in equal measure, people absolutely hate him, and that's all I wanted.

TV has given me everything. Whatever I am today is because of this medium.

The Marley name resonates all around the world.

I feel like a celebrity is someone who sits and takes pictures with people 'cause they love themselves and how they look and how people look at them. But I just want to be regular and respected for my artistry because music doesn't necessarily have a face.

If you are a famous personality, you should talk responsibly.

No one eats at restaurants as much as I do.

When people don't hear you on the radio they think 'maybe he retired.'

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.'

I don't want to be a reality retro star.

See, I am straight woman, but Tanushree Dutta made me a lesbian. She used me thinking I will not become a big star and reveal what she did to the public. She is wrong.

I Got Rhythm really put me on the map.

I've been very fortunate. But rich? People make huge assumptions about the guys in Gn'R.