Quotes About Fame

When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for.

I have been to a few A-list parties, but not massively. It's not my life, but it's fun dipping into it.

I didn't find fame particularly difficult, partly because I'm proud to be able to say I'm the most unrecognisable face in pop.

Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.

I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!

So many Hollywood actresses become successful and then just keep on going - they miss out on having a partner and a baby and end up lonely.

Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.

It's very important in any relationship that one partner doesn't lose themselves in the other, and that's very easy if you're involved with a celebrity.

If I die, I know the news item would be, 'Partner of Ricky Gervais and novelist dies.' That would come first. But I've come to terms with it. As long as they do still add the 'and novelist,' that will be fine.

'Dancing With the Stars' is not a show about me - it's a show about my partner, it's a show about celebrities that join the show.

I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.

Fame is like being at a party and getting invited into the cool room even the VIPs can't get into, then the even cooler, more exclusive room after that. Eventually, you end up in a cubicle on your own, asking, 'Am I having fun?'

I never envy the guys who get attention for partying too much or behaving badly.

When you're famous and you're young then you go partying, and you go to all the parties and stuff, I wasn't into that.

To be given the Radio 1 breakfast show was huge, but I was partying so hard I barely remember it.

It's a crazy industry. I'm not into the partying, I'm a pretty healthy person.

I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work.

For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.

I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, but it just wasn't right.

In showbiz, so much success and fame comes your way and then it passes on to someone else.

Any time a famous rich kid screws up, people want to know about it. Makes them feel good.

passed through that magical and mysterious looking glass that comes with fame and success, on the far side of which people come to you unbidden and ask if they can give you what you want.

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.

Apparently there isn't a professional in Berlin for which you can't get famous.