Quotes About Fame

Bowie drew our attention to the fact that a person could play the part of a rock star before actually becoming one.

I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family ' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!

Mischievous smile. "I remember reading about Calvin Klein's daughter. Every time she pulled down a lover's pants, she was confronted by her father's name on the band of his underwear. A total sex killer.

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.

existe una violencia peor que el dolor de que no lo publiquen a uno: ¡que te publiquen y no salgas del más absoluto anonimato!

A ojos de todos, Pete será para siempre el tipo que estuvo a punto de ser un Beatle.

Pick acabó estando en boca de todos, convertido en el símbolo de lo que sueñan quienes aspiran a que algún día les reconozcan el talento. ¿Quién podría creer a los que dicen que escriben para sí mismos?

Desde el principio supe que yo era un genio. Tenía en mí la dosis de sufrimiento necesaria para la formación del genio. No creo haber cambiado con la fama: son los otros los que cambiaron. Fue el mundo entero el que de pronto comprendió quién era yo.

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

If Kim Kardashian walks down the street in Paris wearing a diamond necklace worth millions of dollars, she is not only showing off her wealth, she is also flaunting her power over violence, since everyone assumes she would not be able to do so without the existence, visible or not, of an armed personal security detail, trained to deal with potential thieves.

Celebrity is the mother of pretension.

Being well known for being well-known did not necessarily imply intelligence.

ingenue whose career was winding down

Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.

And like Elvis, they are relying on the one commodity that endures after the voice is no longer quite the same, the moves have grown rusty, and the inspiration no longer flows quite as readily. That is the audience's deep, surprising love for the music they made in the past.

Suppose every photo of me ever taken was an infinitesimal piece? Every magazine ad, every negative, every frame of motion picture film - another tiny molecule of me, stolen away to feed an audience that is *never* satiated. And when someone is fully consumed - vampirized - they move on, still hungry, to pick their next victim by making him or her a star. That's why they're called consumers. ("Red Light")

Blomkvist had heard this line before. He had even spoken to an old lady who claimed that it was actually she who had written the Harry Potter books and that J. K. Rowling had stolen everything by telepathy.

Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.