Quotes About Fame

I am still a normal kid, but when I'm walking on the street, there will be people who ask me to sign a poster or take a picture with them.

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.

A lot of people that I work with now call me Netflix's poster boy and that makes me so happy as who doesn't want to be.

When I was young, anywhere I would go in Germany, I would see my father's posters. Everyone knew about him. And he had many friends who were artists who were also quite famous. So, for me, it seemed very natural to be an artist and be known.

I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.

All three of my kids grew up seeing me on posters.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be on posters. I want to be good.

You just go from sort of normal life - nobody knowing your name and what you look like - to it being a matter of two months or something and there are people making posters and holding your name up and camping outside your house and really crazy stuff.

I busted my bird for 60 years in the business, but my grandkids only know me as Mr. Potato Head.

He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.

Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesn't? But famous-famous? I just don't care about it. And if you genuinely don't give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.

I thought I was investing in myself and my brand, like Kim Kardashian. When she buys these clothes, she's investing in herself, because she is a big brand and is likable. I thought I had that potential. My ego got too big. To think I could be someone like that when I was the most hated girl ever.

Celebrity culture is... it's not something that I'm attracted to. I guess I don't think of myself in that way, but potentially other people do. I feel I'm at the far periphery of that.

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.

If I had a pound for every time I heard Ollie Watkins' name I could buy half of London!

We have this obsession with celebrity, where people can go on shows and makes millions of pounds from being completely talentless - Jade Goody, all that type of people - and it really gets to me. I'm not interested, I'm a musician. It's not about being famous and being a celeb.

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good - big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I'm going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.