Quotes About Fame

All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.

I was abused by certain political leaders even though the janta loved me.

I am definitely not a politician.

Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.

I'm not a politician, only a singer.

I am a politician but I am also an actress and you do need glamour in politics.

The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.

I loved acting and wanted to be a leading man. But I decided I'd rather be a big fish in the stuntman pond than a little acting fish. I guess I must have made the right decision.

Pony' was one of the biggest songs of my career. It was really hard to follow that up.

Elvis Presley's estate is making 30 million a year, and they say that Marley shouldn't be, but he is from a much poorer part of the world, and a lot more people need the money.

I'm the poorest famous person in the country.

When I was watching 19 and 20-year-olds go through this, dropping out of college to become famous on the Internet, I saw that it can go well but it can also go poorly, and usually it'll be a mix of those two things.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

I have to accept the fact that the time I was on, 'Project Runway' was already becoming a pop culture phenomenon.

I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.

If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights softens you into a cuddly family figure.

If somebody can make a joke about you on TV, that's so beautiful. You've affected pop culture to that degree.

I love pop culture. I love sports. I love entertainment. The fact that I get paid to be a part of this is like, 'Woah.'