Quotes About Fame

I've spent the better part of two decades running both toward and away from an image - the Hollywood image - that had come to define me.

I get kids who say, 'Oh, I love your movie, but my mum loves your dad.' It's really nice to be able to share that with him, but it doesn't define who I am career-wise.

If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.

I was 15 when I did Rufio and now I've been Rufio for more of my life than I haven't been. Wrestling with that is always interesting because you don't want to be fully defined by it, but at the same time it's you, and you don't want to be ashamed of you either.

Media is a powerful thing, and you see it with so many actors, where one role that brings them a lot of attention is sort of how they get defined.

It's funny because Hollywood is such a small place that everyone really is less than 6 degrees of separation.

My teachers used to tell me all the time, 'One day you're going to be famous. Make sure you come back; don't forget about me when you make it.' People would tell me - like, teachers with their masters' degrees.

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

Rahul Roy is delusional. He wants 'Aashiqui' to end with him. When it didn't end with me, how can it end with him?

I've always been an attention seeker. I've always demanded attention and I'll do anything to get it.

Money, ego and drugs - that's what caused the demise of our band.

The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.

I think you can become dependent on fame and be as known as you want to be, you know?

When people say, 'I know you. What have I seen you in?' I respond, 'Well, it depends on how old you are.'

When I was at United, I had money, but I was still so down and depressed.

Just like everybody else, celebrities have brains and those brains get conditions - addiction, depression.

I see that people now recognize me in the street. But it doesn't change me in the depth of my being.

Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

I can't even begin to describe what kind of a response 'Humsafar' got. Personally, I feel my other show, 'Zindagi Gulzar Hai,' was better, but it didn't match the success of 'Humsafar.'

The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty.

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

There'll always be a difference between a star and an actor. I've nothing against stars. They've earned it and deserve it. I'm happy being just an actor.

Westlife never got the credit they deserved.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.