Quotes About Fame

Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.

I'd gone very quickly from playing in a park with my mates to sitting next to Wayne Rooney at dinner. It was a bit weird.

A lot of rappers are stars, but people like Drake and Lil Wayne, those are superstars.

Of course I always knew 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are The Champions' and all those. But my real introduction to Queen the band and knowing who they were was the movie 'Wayne's World' like a lot of people in my generation.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they've heard the name before. That's an advantage that I have.

I got mobbed at a pizza parlor. Kids and especially girls went going crazy. They got so excited.

People say, 'Oh God, you're name-dropping.' Well who else comes to your house when you're John Lennon? These were normal friends to him. McCartney, Jagger, they'd stop in and I'd order pizza or Mick's favorite beef curry from the local Chinese restaurant. We did normal things.

I never minded stories of the beautiful women associated with Dilip saab. I had placed my entire trust in him.

Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.

People who have now become famous and say that they never had a plan B in mind, it doesn't work like that.

Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.

Britney proposing to me on a plane three months after we met, and getting married two months later was just us living in the moment. I really thought I'd spend the rest of my life with her.

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

When I first got successful, I was particularly aware of being immaculate at all times, so I would get on a plane in one outfit, and get off in another. It doesn't happen in today's world, but when you are met by the press at both ends, you do have to.

I don't want to buy a jet plane. I don't want to live with an entourage.

I've been offered private planes, and I'm like, 'No!'

What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

Meghan Markle is one of the loveliest human beings on the planet, in the world.

I've found, being in Los Angeles, it's like living in a live-action Planet Hollywood.

'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.

I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.