Quotes About Fame

When youre on telly, youre defined by what you do on telly.

There is a sense that if you're not on the telly then you might have died. I'm aware that's how people largely judge you.

I think shows like 'Dancing on Ice,' 'X Factor' and 'Britain's Got Talent' make great telly, but I'd never want to be contestant. I'm far too insecure and competitive. Also, working in theatre, you're being judged all the time - and I'd rather not be told I'm awful in front of millions of people!

People are brutal. They forget that people on telly are actually real people.

Gareth Bale is such a great player. I had watched him before on telly and you could see how special he is.

I have never had a problem with not being able to do anything just because I am on telly every day.

I've written four jokes ever about cakes. But because they were show jokes, they were on the telly a lot. And everywhere I go people give me cupcakes. I don't eat them, I give them away.

I've turned up to auditions and seen faces that I recognise and I think I know them. Then I realise I know them because they are on the telly.

I have sung in all languages, and so every people know me - Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu.

I just remember saying to myself, 'I want to be a super jock.' I don't want to be just some radio personality in some town somewhere doing the time and temperature and the latest song.

Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

Success and fame... both are temporary. There today, gone tomorrow.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

Whatever happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?

Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and conversations were the strangest of any man I ever knew.

When I was a fighting-man, the kettle-drums they beat, The people scattered gold-dust before my horse's feet; But now I am a great king, the people hound my track With poison in my wine-cup, and daggers at my back. – The Road of Kings.

In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted

I am become a name.

Such is the universal desire for fame that those who achieve it accidentally or unwillingly will wait in vain for pity.

Popularity's overrated.

A marked desire to be considered more than he felt himself to be; to become endowed, in fact, with that unpredictable, dangerous and transformative quality: fame.