Quotes About Fame

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.

A lot of people think that celebrities are fake, and a couple of them are.

I don't want to just fall back on the fact that I was on the cover of 'GQ' for being an actor.

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

I've seen young actresses have major falls from their career, and that's just not what I want.

Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to use it for some good.

The whole acting game can sometimes be a bit false, and you meet a lot of people in it for the fame - so there's nothing I love more than going back to Essex.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for.

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.

Fame is a constant effort.

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

Josh Hutcherson

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

I think fame became exciting for me in the late '90s because I could actually use it as a means to an end. I could actually have it help me serve my vocationfulness.