Quotes About Fame

When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good for you or any of that.

I want to move along and become the biggest star in WWE. I don't really care who it angers along the way, to be honest. It's no concern of mine, really.

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.

'L.A. Confidential' was written with me in mind, but Russell Crowe got the part. Go figure.

I think a lot of people confuse what we do with fame or wanting fame... which is not necessarily true.

Throughout my career, people have totally confused 'Laguna Beach' and 'The O.C.' I think, in people's minds, it all kind of got blurred over time.

Buying my pain aux raisins and someone wanting a selfie was so confusing.

The whole 'Roots' thing is a very confusing time in my life, because I don't think I knew how to deal with the whole fame thing very well - especially in Brazil. We went to Brazil, and the record was massive - like real, real big; like Beatles big. And I remember I tried to go to the mall with my wife, and we got mobbed.

All of my friends and a lot of kids at school know what I do. It's really something that's a big deal in my town. So it keeps it really special when people do congratulate me.

I fangirl when I see someone famous wish me congratulations.

When someone says, 'I recognize you,' I'll say, 'Congratulations on having a TV.' It's a little joke.

You don't have to do the picture, you have to do the autograph, but it's important to take that moment to make a human connection.

I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.

Poor little Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, or whatever her name is. It must be incredible at that age to be surrounded by people telling you you're wonderful.

Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.

It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.

To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.

Of course I took advantage of the publicity that surrounded my friendship with Princess Margaret.

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

There are many myths surrounding celebrity children.

If you know Gucci Mane, controversy is always surrounding Gucci.