Quotes About Fame

I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.

I am really surprised that what I am wearing on 'Countdown' has got into the papers.

If you ask most people, 'Who's Lily Allen?,' they'll say, 'That girl who's in the papers all the time.' Not that girl who wrote songs.

I became famous when I scored that goal for Mogi Mirim direct from the kick-off against Noroeste. It was 18 April 1993, if I'm not mistaken. After that, my name was in all the papers.

John would drink, too, but he would stop. After a while, John would say, 'I've had enough, I don't want to be in the papers.'

If you go on the Internet and type in 'Lee Ryan one liners,' I think I'm on par with Gandhi.

I'm very well-recognized in Japan, on a par with a rock star.

I never thought that I would share a hit parade with the Beatles.

It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.

Hey, I've done a lot of other things, but I'm also very aware that when I kick the bucket, the first paragraph will be, 'The man responsible for 'Frampton Comes Alive!' just dropped dead. Frampton Drops Dead! after coming alive all these years.'

I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

Fame really drove me into my house. I was very paranoid. I didn't like going out. I had no idea how to be comfortable with the press. I was very young. It was really hard for me.

Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.

Now you don't know if somebody likes you or Milli Vanilli, the fame, the money. This makes it difficult. This makes you a little paranoid and afraid about people.

I've made $50 million over the years as a movie star, if you'll pardon the expression, and I've given most of it to the bookies.

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won't get your second unless you're good.

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

If you look at top players - Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi - so many had a parent who was domineering to the point where you really had to question his sanity. It was nuts.