Quotes About Fame

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.

I love in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are. My mother has trouble remembering my name.

In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

The quick lesson that I learned is that none of the fame part is really real.

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

Movies are the shadiest business in the world.

I won't buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.