Quotes About Fame

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

I'm a very famous wife but I'm still plodding along in my career.

The first two actors we cast were Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. Because we started so highbrow, we were able to get anyone. Plus, some of these people have children, and their kids love 'X-Men.' They'll do it because of them - that's our little extra ace in the hole.

Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.

I'm not famous, which generally is an absolute plus point, but if you're on TV, or someone knows who you are, it can be quite helpful to a certain charity or certain cause.

I was friends with Cube; he was also a fan of mine, and I a fan of him. Even before Balistyx happened I was hanging out with him, taking him to 'The Arsenio Hall Show' for his first time. I was like, 'Ice Cube, I've got a plus 1, you should go,' and I took him. Cube wasn't known at all yet.

Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.

When 'Kaanta Laga' was offered to me, I was in college, doing my engineering course. I did the shooting of the song for some pocket money. I never imagined it to become such a huge hit.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.

I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.

I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.

What's really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me.

My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

Everyone wanted to play like Eric Clapton in the early to mid-'60s.