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Quotes About Fame

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
~ David McCallum
We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
~ Young Thug
Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.
~ Michael Korda
They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms... They call that a profession? Come on!
~ Marcello Mastroianni
I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.
~ Peter O'Toole
I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'
~ Bill Bailey
I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.
~ Elton John
That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?
~ Chris Elliott
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
~ Van Morrison
On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.
~ Louis Kronenberger
She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.
~ Ziauddin Yousafzai
One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.
~ Lorna Luft
You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.
~ Jay Leno
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
~ Liza Minnelli
I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.
~ Enid Blyton
My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.
~ Marie Lu
I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.
~ Frances Bean Cobain
Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.
~ James M. Barrie
Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.
~ Lisa Marie Presley
My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.
~ Shirley Temple
I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong?
~ Brooke Shields
It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.
~ Luke Perry
It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.
~ Robert Goulet
My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
~ Lorna Luft