Quotes About Fame

I was a huge fan of the bandleader Ray Noble when I was younger. He was one of the biggest musical names of his day and wrote such romantic songs as 'Goodnight Sweetheart' and 'The Touch Of Your Lips.' Wonderful stuff.

I became the nation's sweetheart because I'm a safe gay. I'm non-intrusive.

Normally I get called Sammi Sweetheart on a daily basis.

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

Everyone has their 'Showgirls.' We remember the great films actors have been in, and the rest get forgotten. But occasionally, people like to revisit the ones that get swept aside.

More people than not have seen me on television in swim shorts, so I don't have any problem stripping down.

I don't think a swimmer on film works unless you're Australian, because for them, swimmers are like their football players, their basketball players; they're huge stars.

People come up to me and say, 'You're that swimmer.'

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

I'm not getting recognized because I posed in a swimsuit edition of some magazine, but because of what I do on the field, and that's important to me.

I want to model and I want to do whatever it takes to be a 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit model.

I felt I had 'made it' as a model when I was invited to be the first model to shoot for the 2019 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit issue.

Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.

It was everyone going up there to swing for the fences, because the home runs were what would get them on 'SportsCenter.' That really changed the mindset of the players.

A couple things I'm gonna be remembered for: the hat backwards and the swing. And the smile.

Getting to No. 1 makes everyone feel better; of course it does. But it's swings and roundabouts with these things. Sometimes you make a great record, and it clicks with people. And other times it passes them by; there's nothing you can do. It's still the same record.

I would swipe right for Varun Dhawan, and he knows that!

I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film.

One time, I came off stage and a guy named Roman Decare, God rest his soul, he was a comic. 'Louie, if you do that family stuff, and you're a clean comic on stage, you'll become famous.' And, for some reason, a switch clicked, and I started doing the family stuff, and it became a giant part of my life.

I wish there was a switch that I could flip, where no one knows me. And then, when I'm ready to make a splash, I'd flip the switch and say, 'Hey, I'm ready now.' Unfortunately, that doesn't happen.

I am not so famous. I'm known in a few countries like Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and around the Alps. Some climbers in Beijing know my name, and some in America, but I am not really famous. It's very relative, my fame.