Quotes About Fame

The fact that I got famous and became a sex symbol around my normal, frumpy, love-handled self is so gratifying - and, dare I say, culturally gratifying as well.

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.

Of course I'm going to be labeled as a sex symbol. I made my bed, and I'm sleeping in it.

I can't be described as a sex symbol; I think it's ridiculous.

An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.

Maybe one day I'll have a big hit, and the world will make a big sex symbol out of me like they always do when there's a new chick.

Do you know I'm a sex symbol?

I love to be known as a sex symbol.

I can choose to be a serious musician, but the sex symbol part is not up to me.

I'm a sex symbol.

I felt like I was in the wrong body, especially when you're considered a sex symbol.

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

It annoys me that we glorify sex symbols one day and make them apologise the next.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. You're merchandised, you're a product.

I'm going to tell you something: it's a job to be glamorous. I mean, if you think it comes easy, it doesn't. Marilyn went through it; all the sex symbols go through it.

It was no easy feat becoming Dominick Dunne. Think about it. He was the most celebrated chronicler of downtrodden socialites. He feasted on their famine with little sympathy or admiration for their formerly exalted positions. Yet somehow they invited him back.

I was very blessed with 'N Sync. It was a big success and it was a lot of fun.

I get recognized more for my 'Lip Sync Battle' than I do for being Spider-Man.

My mother is a hardcore actor's actor. She's not a celebrity. She really isn't... And so her main concern was that I not fall into the auditioning-is-my-life syndrome.

I had a pretty rough life. I got caught up in the star syndrome. It's not something I'm proud of, but it's something that I'm glad is over.