Quotes About Fame

My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come.

Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone.

I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.

I don't understand why guys want to be controversial and in the press all the time. It's just not my nature.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

There's such an emphasis on people being the perfect thing and then destroying them because it's good press.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

I've grown up in the press my entire life.

I started with the Oakland A's back in 1971 and there was press at every game and there were cameras on me when I was that young. So with 20 years being MC Hammer, I'm comfortable with cameras so when the camera goes on, I continue doing what I'm doing.

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.

If I go out in the street and one guy gets a picture, then someone calls the press to say Mario was there. The day after in the press, it's, 'Mario was there'. That's normal, I just walk in town like a normal guy.

I never really got any attention until I was on MTV. I became a household name because I was on every day from 3-4 P.M. I wasn't prepared for it - how mean they can be in the press.

Basically just being on the road so much and all the pressure of the Eagles eventually got to me.

In my heart, international cricket is the way forward. That's where you want to play; that's where the pressure really lies. That's where you make your name.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.